Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twentieth Century is an age of specialization." Most of us will agree with this statement; some of us, perhaps, are occasionally inclined to feel that it is an age of over-specialization. That we live in a materialistic age as well, is also beyond serious contradiction. These things being true, it seems important for us who live in the twentieth century to pay particular attention to other and less material eras in the world's history, in order that a succeeding epoch may strike a balance between two extremes. On the other hand, it is more than possible that...
...equally careful to preserve for posterity a record of his intimate life, his amusements and his ambitions in the form of letters and journals. These records help us to understand how men thought, and to understand how men thought is to go more than half-way towards understanding the age in which they lived. The literature and the history of a period are so closely interwoven that it is almost impossible to separate them--in fact, until our day, no one has tried to separate them. For example we may learn much about the attitude of England toward Napoleon...
...trees are to be elms, about thirty years of age, the average diameter being 8 or 10 inches. Superintendent Herlihey is looking for suitable trees in Blue Hills but it will be on toward summer before the trees have been transplanted...
...well as foodstuffs, and Russia is so poor. Then I want to see your new- est schools and hospitals for children, and study, the best American systems." Mme. Kalinin is expected to sail shortly. She, like her husband, is a simple peasant. A woman of about 35 years of age, she is the mother of three children and the foster mother of two famine orphans...
...young President of Harvard, he "turned the place over like a flapjack." It is not surprising that Theodore Roosevelt, born when Dr. Eliot was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics at Harvard and dying when his college President was still in the vigor of his age, should have said of him: "He is the only man in the world I envy...