Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March, 1925, at the age of 73, Frederick Huntington Gillett will quit the chamber where for 32 years he will have served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Leaving the hall where he has done the greater part of his life's work, he will walk up the long, long corridor, through the rotunda, and still on through the long, long corridor to the hall at the opposite end of the tremendous building on Capitol Hill...
...early years at Washington were happy, a Golden Age. There was a threshold, at 1603 H Street, which was "sooner or later crossed by everybody who possessed real quality"-the threshold of Henry Adams, sardonic New Englander, connoisseur of life and all its arts, a man who said of himself: ". . . as far as he had a function, it was as stable-companion to statesmen, whether they liked it or not." Over the Adams threshold daily came John Hay, "the roving diplomat," Secretary of State to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, Adams' great friend. Here came Clarence King, a professional geologist...
...proposed Amendment does not prohibit Child Labor. It would give Congress the power to regulate or prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. Its purpose is to make uniform, and inferentially to raise, the bars against Child Labor. The formal argument against the Amendment is "too much centralization." The real arguments are "conflicting interests, economic, social...
Aside from the specialized scientific subjects there are to be a number of addresses on matters that will appeal to laymen generally. For instance: "The Age of the Stars," by Edward Congdon; "Drowning Period of Crocodiles," by G. H. Parker; "The Skin Temperature of Men and Women"; and "Some Peculiarities in the Distribution of New England Flies...
...Gospel of John represents Christ differently than do the other three since it treats of the eternal life while the others talk of the Kingdom of Heaven and of the ending of this age. There is action in the first three but very little in the fourth...