Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vergilian Age...
...such comprehensive effort has hitherto been made to assess the forces of twentieth century life, and the result commands the concern of all who have an interest in their own age and its destiny...
...Easton, Pa., a Mrs. Francis Gillespie made known that she, her six sisters and three brothers, all children of the late Irish-born Daniel Timony, plus their husbands, wives and 14 children of voting age, would all vote for Smith (34 votes). Next day, a Mrs. Martha Griffiths of Williamstown, Pa., aged 87, announced 87 votes for Hoover-her eleven children, 32 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, 33 sons, daughters, grandsons-and granddaughters...
...slippers. Sir Joshua painted her against an expanse of foliage. Her parents paid him about $1,050. It meant nothing to debutante Betty. When she went home she called Sir Joshua "a pompous little man." Later she became Lady Cavendish, presented her Lord with eleven children, died at the age...
...demand younger blood; 2) he is inefficient, stockholders demand bigger returns; 3) he is dishonest, stockholders demand integrity; 4) he is unwanted, there has been a merger. But when Fred W. Ramsey, president of the Cleveland Metal Products Co. resigned six years ago he was neither 1) old, his age was 42; 2) inefficient, he had helped his concern to succeed; 3) dishonest, nor 4) unwanted. Having succeeded in business, during a quarter-century of sedulous attention to it, he is now free to go the remaining steps to the top in Y. M. C. A. work, for contemporaneously with...