Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That coal miners by average add 1.1 children to their families between the ages of 46 and 49. ¶ That about 3 out of 4 children born to coal miners before the age of 50 are living at the end of that period. ¶ That physicians, dentists and surgeons have the smallest number of children at the age of 50 when presumably their families are completed. ¶ That of the children born to physicians, etc., under 50 years of age, 10 out of 11 live to the end of that period...
...political wing which supported the Constitution. But, when the Civil War came, Garrison supported the Government. He saw at 60 the achievement of the cause which he had championed since he was 24. In 1867, he gave up publishing the Liberator but lived on in an honored old age till 1879. Such was the father of Mrs. Villard...
...Paris that Tsar Boris of Bulgaria is about to make the annually projected courting tour of Europe in search of a bride. Courting has a special sense for him; it means a round of the courts to court some eligible young princess. The young Tsar, nearly 31 years of age, son of long-nosed Ferdinand (who abdicated in 1918) intends to travel first to Belgrade, capital of Yugo-Slavia, where there are no princesses, but where he may meet Rumanian Queen Marie's youngest progeny -Princess Ileana who, however, is not yet 16 years old. Thence he will...
...everywhere. No one is satisfied with anyone, except, now and then oneself. The educational world is introspective and the criticism of the day is a criticism of impatience. Uneasy folk upbraid one another for not achieving that which the demon of an age of externals longs for but will never achieve-cultured calm, a philosophical detachment...
...FARMER'S WIFE?Mr. and Mrs Coburn in a robustly amusing comedy of rural England by Eden Phillpotts. Whom should a widower marry at the age...