Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixty years of age, Tsao-Kun started life as a private soldier, but displayed such qualities of leadership that he attracted the attention of an officer who sent him to a military school. There he made excellent progress and later became an instructor...
...they go to the penitentiary or join the Army. . . . No provision was made in any state school system for the education of adults-no plan existed prior to 1911 for redeeming illiterates. ... It was generally understood that when one grew up illiterate he was to remain so. ... The school age was from 6 to 20 and no one over that age was supposed to enter...
...barrier of age to educational opportunity must crumble just as the barriers of race, sex, class and religion have given...
...University of Michigan recently graduated an Iowa judge at the age of 62. Columbia University graduated a grandmother aged 71 and Kansas University graduated a man of 81 at its last commencement. . . . The three R's are comparatively easy subjects for the adult mind and none are too old to grasp them. . . . " If there should be one Booker T. Washington, Edison or Lincoln among them, although it cost $20,000,000 to bring him out, it would be well worth the price...
...author of The Blind Bow-Boy is a tall, slim, white-haired, slightly florid young man of middle age. I have often observed him, have corresponded with him, but have never consciously spoken to him. I should have a constant fear that he would ruin some pet illusion of mine by a vagrant flippancy?and that I should be tempted to attempt to knock him down where he stood. Yet from all accounts Carl Van Vechten is a charming fellow. He is fond of cats (as the world reading his books knows). He has lived much on the Continent...