Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widows between the ages of 65 and 70, crowded into British branch post offices, last week, in piteous, hopeful, halting ranks, numbering some 450,000. Sympathetic post people registered the widows' names and proofs of age and widowhood in mossy ledgers. Then to each bona fide applicant they passed out "ten bob" (10 shillings...
Until Death comes these saving driblets will continue weekly. They commenced, last week, when there came automatically into effect Section Three of the Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions...
...present no less than 15,000,000 Britons of the wage earning class are "covered" by ill-health, unemployment, accident, old age, or life insurance imposed or furnished by the State. Each week more than 1,250,000 old age pensions are paid -this in the face of a national budgetary deficit exceeding $830,000,000 for the past twelvemonth...
...exempt from English A, the prescribed English of the Freshman year. On the other side of the blank is a short form-note to the Freshman's Adviser from the chairman of the Board, and below are blank spaces in which are noted the Freshman's name, age, home address, name of his parent or guardian, where he was prepared for College, in what studies he has especial interest, and his intended profession or life work...
...letter is sent to each Freshman regarding registration and consultation with Advisers. With this letter is sent the pamphlet entitled, "Studies of the Freshman Year"; a list of the members of the Board of Freshman Advisers with the subjects which they teach, and a blank asking for the name; age; home address; address to which notice of appointment of Adviser should be sent; name of parent or guardian; where the boy has been prepared for College; the name of any Adviser to whom for any special reason, personal or otherwise, he would like to be assigned (the reasons for this...