Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of belated citations for gallantry in the Spanish American War, named Lieut. John J. Pershing (now General retired) to be honored with a silver star. The frigate Constitution, several times near destruction, saved once by Oliver Wendell Holmes' Old Ironsides, is suffering from the decay of age. Rear Admiral de Steiguer made it known that Secretary of the Navy Wilbur meditates calling on the children of the Nation for pennies to save her again...
...peace strength; that it had become necessary to issue to enlisted men inferior equipment left over from the War; that the National Guard had grown beyond the limits set for it in current appropriations; that soon most of the veterans of the War would have reached such an age that we would be left without a reserve of citizens trained and with experience in the field. That some plan for building up a dependable reserve must be undertaken...
...Girl. If you are one of the agreeable nomads who blend with the hurrying theatre crowds only occasionally, this play may seem acceptable. It is a musical essay on the trials of Prohibition. The fact that a good many of the lines are frayed with age will not depress you. Yet, if you are a suspicious theatregoer from the midst of the metropolis where a good joke is an old joke in a week, you are cautioned quietly against...
...attacks on the Modernists, he accused the American Museum of Natural History of New York "of juggling and manipulating the musty old bones in the Hall of the Age of Man exhibit, in order to prove that man ascended from the brutes". He also accuses the Modernists of "demoralizing their congregations and transforming their churches into club rooms and "social centers" and of "destroying soul-winning zeal and power in foreign lands through the poison of their teaching...
Four track events this afternoon of Soldiers Field will complete the fall handicap track meet, which started almost a month age. A number of football athletes are expected to get into action this afternoon in the four weight events which will be held. Competition is open to all students in the college. Today's program will consist of the shot put, the hammer throw the discus, and the javelin threw and will start at 3 o'clock this afternoon...