Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mundelein is 51. Cardinal Merry del Val, Spaniard of massive face, "eyes as big as baseballs," is 59. He became Cardinal at the age...
...Seylla of graduate and undergraduate hopes of victory and the Charybdis of ever-ready denunciation on the score of "over-emphasis" requires a master hand. Surpassing even the crafty Ulysses, Dean Briggs has made sacrifices neither to the one nor to the other. It is true that the golden age of the Haughton regime made the football seasons more than satisfactory to the students and alumni--but in other sports there was no overwhelming superiority to lull would-be dissenters into "innocuous desuetude". Having a clear idea, however, of the place which athletics ought to occupy in college, or more...
...comforting to think that in an age of radicalism Congress should stick by the old. The Senate can find no better precedents than the actions of the English parliaments of the seventeenth century. It is quite right in not proceeding too fast. The great American people must be educated slowly. They are not yet ready for such startling doctrines as the "infallibility of human testimony" and especially when it is backed by the Harvard Law School, no torious for its dangerously advanced views. "Slow but sure--sure to be slow" is an excellent motto for Congress just...
Harvard Committee of Classical Instructors: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 34. A text containing "The Peloponnesos in the Bronze Age" by J. P. Harland and "A New Approach to the Text of Pliny's Letters" by E. K. Rand...
...year age today, Soldiers Field was covered with snow, and the baseball aspirants faced another two weeks of monotonous indoor practice. Today, however, the greensward presents a springlike aspect. It is still rather soft, but the ministrations of Mr. Enwright and his gasoline tractor are fast remedying that fault...