Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution" is said to be the only provision in that document inserted in respect to one man. That man was Alexander Hamilton, who, born on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, came to New York at the age of 15, at 20 was a lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Washington, became Secretary of the Treasury in the first cabinet, wrote Washington's Farewell Address...
...matter of fact, nothing is more necessary to keep the League alive than youthful optimism. Its advocates may point out its past successes, it present organization, and its future possibilities with brilliance and vigor, but in general conservative age fails to be impressed. The older man relies largely on precedent and experience. The young man, with no experience to rely on, and small knowledge of precedent, is more willing to try anything once. Certainly the European nations have belied the imputation of age by their eagerness to try something which has the charm of novelty; America has shown the world...
...chopped fine, a diet of snails and mud baths have their advocates. Lord Atholstan is the first Canadian-born peer to be raised to the House of Lords for services to the Empire. He is a self-made man who joined the staff of the Montreal Gazette at the age of 18, and at 21, with a capital of $100, he combined with George T. Lanigan, the writer, to establish the Montreal Star. Cancer is the great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever...
...think has been happening there ? " you would run considerable risk by replying that your neighbor was coming down in the world, or that she was having people to dinner. But if you replied that there had probably been a death you might display normal intelligence for the age of 13. Or you might...
...taste of the artistic which everyone has in some remote corner of his nature, and which the old methods did not reach. Instead of flaunting, barbarisms, the new art embodies "the fables of the people", and it displays "some of the most ingenuous literature of the age...