Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eminence Cardinal Maffi is 67 years of age. Like the Pope, he has a hobby- Science, in which he is extremely well versed. In appearance, he is a typical Romano- high forehead, heavy overhanging brows, full mouth, quantities of white hair which was once jet black. His ideas are modern, too modern for some of his followers. Not long ago, he proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight...
...Kritzendorf, small Austrian hamlet, there shuffled off this mortal coil one of the most picturesque characters of an age that is past. Death came to 84-year-old Peter Menth, famed in Vienna and throughout the German Empire as the world's best maker of boots...
...Premier Zaghlul, 75 years of age, is undoubtedly the most powerful man in Egypt. His declared policy is to secure for Egypt absolute independence- that is, to end British control of Egypt's foreign affairs, to insist upon the withdrawal of British financial advisors and British troops on Egyptian territory, to transfer from the British the right to protect foreign minorities and to claim sole right of protecting the Suez Canal. Furthermore, he would abolish the Anglo-Egyptian condominion in the Sudan and make that country an integral part of Egypt wholly under Egyptian rule...
...whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...
...erosion of the houses has been considerable and this, in a very dry region, points to great age. The village is farther to the north and west than other pueblos, and its age has been tentatively set at from 5,000 to 10,000 years - which makes it as old or older than the most ancient Egyptian tombs. Governor Scrugham has accepted the title of "Pueblo Grande de Nevada" for the buried city, and plans to convert it into a state park. Needless to say, the work of excavation has only begun...