Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yagna began to feel ill at ease. Old men croaked dubious warnings as to the ominous consequences of the mating of youth with age. But the wedding went...
...Brooklyn Museum, founded in 1824, celebrates its centenary, notably with an exhibition of the works of Ivan Mestrovic, Yugo-Slav sculptor. Only 41 years of age, Mestrovic has nevertheless for years been as well known as any contemporary artist on the Continent. Oddly enough, his work has never before reached the U.S. Its arrival has caused no little talk, for Mestrovic is an individualist of power. His themes are highly dramatic?heroic figures, gaining in a sort of grim majesty what they lose in intimacy and, occasionally, in essential nobility. Mestrovic's life is interesting in connection with...
...alert personality felt by students and faculty. Born in Charleston, S. C, in 1879, he was educated at the Charleston High School (1896), Charleston College (1896-97), the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. (B.A. 1900 and M.A. 1901), Johns Hopkins (1902) and (comparatively late in life-at the age of 34) at the Columbia Law School (LL.B. 1913). From 1903 to 1909, he was Professor of Greek at the University of the South. During the World War, he campaigned in France, first as a lieutenant with the 304th Field Artillery and afterwards as a major of the General Staff...
...Gentlemen: Did you not slip?-Nov. 17, 1924, page 20, column three-the proposed legislation, requiring the attendance of all children of grammar-school age in the public schools, was voted upon in Michigan and Washington, not in Oregon, as stated in your periodical. The Oregon Education Bill was voted upon in Oregon at the election held Nov. 7, 1922, at which time the vote stood 106,910 for and 92,530 against the bill, being a majority of 14,380 in favor of it. TIME is now an indispensable periodical and you are rendering inestimable service to the busy...
...FARMER'S WIFE?Placidly amusing country comedy of middle age in which the widower finds a wife...