Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldest man in the Senate, a man who had never been defeated in an election, the " grand old man," the "Norseman," the "Viking," or?as he liked best to be called" Farmer Nelson " died aboard a Pennsylvania Railroad train on April 28; Senator Knute Nelson, 80 years of age, and senior Senator from Minnesota fell dead of heart disease as he was going from Washington to his home in Alexandria, Minn...
...abilities are given the opportunity for study overseas. But it fittingly remains for the new gift in the name of Richard Parker to honor, as does the Gordon Brown scholarship at Yale, each year the rare combination of wide interests, high standards, intellectual ability, and fine balance. In an age of specialized mediocrity such a gift is more than welcome...
...else play. Yet while our Indian stalking ancestors may have been trim and athletic of necessity, old family albums show corporations as well as side whiskers and one wonders how they flourished in the rigorous life of the time. Can it be that men existed in that golden age who never pushed a pedal nor pulled an oar? Impossible...
...human skeleton was found near Dallas, Texas, in a fossil bed believed to be of the Pleistocene (ice) age (about 300,000 years ago). Many authorities think it belongs to a more modern type...
...Excavation for a new hotel in Washington, D. C., unearthed a subterranean cypress swamp containing fossil diatoms, minute plants which lived in the Pleistocene age. " Oldest inhabitants" are arguing with the scientists that the swamp existed in their boyhood, but the evidence favors its antiquity...