Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second defect is to be found in all the prose in varying degree. There is faulty observation both in imitating nature and in checking up descriptions with the action throughout the story. At the age of sixty-five the alertness of the short, muscular cabinet-makers is questionable. In one place Mr. Hooker's workshop is "small" and yet, later on, Mr. Collision spends half-an-hour in its nooks and corners dragging out furniture. Mr. Hooker needed the space below for his cabinet-making and the same amount of time spent in the attic better fits the picture...
When we were taken to the college, we rode the half mile from the Hospital in our Ford and entered the campus though the college age. But we were cold that people had not been able to do this for nearly a year, and were shown the trenches by which the college had communicated with the city all through the siege. The campus is marked off by walls and trenches, the surrounding wall is pierced for rifle and for machine gun fire, and big guns are still in their places on the top of the hill, pointing in all directions...
...modern age," said Professor Grandaunt, "with all its inventions and material benefits to mankind, we are too likely to look into the past as into a dark night. But the past ages have made their contributions, and none so abundantly as the Renaissance. Of the great social, intellectual and spiritual influences of this splendid time our age has come to recognize Daute as the one adequate representative...
...history of the Amorites. There are indeed many practical difficulties in the way of the Jew's return to his ancestral soil, but the best British statesmanship and Jewish zeal are working conscientiously toward removing these difficulties in accordance with the highest principles of justice. Men of the present age should have their eyes on Palestine, where one of the greatest events in history is now being enacted, the revival of ancient race, the fulfilment of prophecies, the triumph of justice, the reward of the patient waiting of a people which has remained faithful to its ideals throughout many trials...
...forth in a recent letter to the "New York Tribune" by a "professional man of limited income" who desires to obtain "educational insurance" for his one-year-old son. Briefly, he wants a renewable term policy of $5000, to be paid in suitable installments when the boy reaches college age. In case the boy dies before reaching eighteen, no money is to be paid; but if, having started, he fails to complete his college course, the balance due is to be paid to a designated third person twenty-five years from the date of the policy. The writer complains that...