Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jeffrey went into the Tank Corps, though not to France, and collected material for a bitter novel, Squads Right About. Then Inez, after making up with him again, eliminated him conclusively in favor of a pimply young man named Todd?and Jeffrey went to the modern devil of our age, who is not a merry companion, for a while. But he mended himself with courage and the memories of an old and youthful content?snow-water and the unguent of irony?a gorgeous fistfight released him from certain delusions?Joan's path crossed his again, as it always seemed...
...moment?wrought iron and two men, Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel, was renewed. The time was ripe for the monstrous birth of the steel age? Enoch...
From end to end the Crimson line will average 189 pounds while the Princeton forwards average only 186 pounds. From tackle to tackle Harvard will have its largest advantage, weighing 197 pounds on the average to Princeton's 189 1-2. Princeton Statistics Name and Position Age Wt. Ht. Prep. School First Eleven Smith '24, end 22 173 5.11 Andover Emery '24, tackle 21 186 5.11 Exeter Hills '25, guard 21 201 6.03 Hill Bergen, L., '24, center 26 185 5.09 Lake Forest Academy Snively '24, guard 24 185 5.10 Mercersburg Howard '24, tackle 22 191 6.00 Haverhill...
...would mourn the "good old times." Surviving in modern college life is a folk-dance as old as man, yet still living a natural healthy life. It is a primitive expression of primitive emotion; not a poor marble copy of the original. No one can tell the precise age of the snakes-dance. When Ashur-Nemid and Ozod-Pidach stole up behind their rivals and stabbed them in the back, Ozod put his hands on Ashur's shoulders and they whisked about triumphantly among the trees. No doubt Moses and his brethren rejoiced in much the same manner when they...
History demonstrates one fact at least, that in every age a goodly proportion of folk praised the great men of the past but found little of comfort in their to-day and entertained grave forebodings of their to-morrow. In this respect History never fails to repeat itself. Marco Polo in China in the thirteenth century was told that there were "honest" Celestial politicans "a hundred years...