Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much heralded youth Sidis, who could add aloud the figures on his nursing bottle and who at the age of 11 was describing to Harvard professors how most accurately to measure the fourth dimension, was discovered by a New York reporter to be working as a clerk in the metropolis for $23 a week. This was proof sufficient for an eager penman, who probably sailed over the college course on a level C, that precocity is a flash in the pan, brilliant but momentary...
...boyhood of such dazzling brilliancy promised so much more, say an assistant professorship at $1200 a year, that a position as a clerk is failure. And yet what does entering college at 10, passing the anatomy examination at the Medical School at 11, and winning a diploma at the age of 16 mean beyond a receptive mind turned prematurely into a narrow channel and trained through constant, self-centered attention? These early achievements betray few elements needed for later success, nor were they sufficiently startling to proclaim the youth a genius...
...first American to cross through the heart of Tierra del Fuego. On this trip through this desolate stormy country to the tip of Cape Horn, Colonel Furlong discovered the most primitive people in the world, who, he says, are still living in the Stone Age. He visited the southern most town in the world and also several Indian tribes which still retained some very curious customs...
This career of Pirandello's is an extraordinary one. He did not begin writing plays until he was 50 years of age and he was not really famous until he began writing plays. When you consider that three or four of our most brilliant American dramatists have ceased writing plays at an even earlier age than 50, there seems a good lesson in the activities of Pirandello. Why shouldn't a man keep his creative vitality until he reaches that period in which ihe can look at life with amused toler- ance, in which he is capable of interpreting life...
...earliest living presidents of the Association, Dr. Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, of the University of Chicago, dean of American geologists, and now past 80 years of age, lectured on Seventy-Five Years of Geology. The nebular hypothesis of the early gaseous state of the earth, changing through liquid to solid, proposed by Laplace in the 18th Century, has now largely been superseded by an entirely new theory of origins known as the "planetesimal hypothesis," and largely developed by Dr. Chamberlin. The earth probably never passed through a gaseous state. Volcanic action is local and arises from special causes. The earth...