Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of matching opponents of nearly equal physical strength originated somewhere back in the beginning of the age of chivalry, when concepts of fairness first dawned upon mankind. Such ideas have been more or less prevalent among human beings since, and have wormed their way in, even as far as the conduct of athletic sports...
...Player was made memorable by Mr. Collamores delivery of Aeneas' tale to Dido, and his ability subtly to distinguish the interwoven parts he played. As for Polonius, though his part was considerably shortened it still gave Mr. Peters opportunity to present the Lord Chamberlain as Shakepere conceived him--an aged but still efficient courtier and diplomat, ready with counsel and device, but kindly humoring the vagrant fancy of the young prince--not the doddering burlesque of age with which many an actor sets on some quantity of the barren spectators to laugh...
Scout masters, who have charge of a troop of from 18 to 32 boys, should be American citizens at least twenty-one years of age. Assistant scout masters must be at least eighteen years of age. The latter will be expected to meet with the troop once a week and assist the scout master as he may direct...
...example, written, by some unknown undergraduate hopelessly enmeshed in official red tape, under the non de plume of "A Gentleman With a Grudge." The time is surely fitting, now that the old order of things in University Hall has passed away, and we stand in ignorance of the "age that is waiting before." A few well-chosen secrets discreetly disseminated in the regions of the Square might work great benefits in the undergraduate ranks. But any aspiring author who would disclose the mysteries of officialdom must prepare to go down to the future all unheralded and unsung. For the fame...
...unanimous decision of university authorities a lumber jack forty-two years of age--an engineering student in the University of Washington whose education until a year ago was confined to the seventh grade of an Irish grammar school--was termed one of the twenty-five most brilliant minds in the United States. This honor was conferred upon him as a result of making a perfect score in the army "alpha" intelligence test. He required only thirteen of the seventeen minutes allowed to complete the test, a feat which was une ualed by any of the 3,000,000 service...