Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American participation in Oxford sports, which has hitherto been frequent and considerable, is threateued with serious curtallment by the new age-limit rule which came into force with the opening of the present term, according to a statement from the Committee on the Rhodes Scholarship Fund at Oxford...
...rule, which was promulgated at an Oxford Cambridge conference recently, is to the effect that any student who is 23 or more years of age on the day of entrance into the university is prohibited from taking part in certain athletic contests between the two major universities...
Through a recent request from the Museum of Stuttgart, Germany, asking for cooperation in locating several type fossils of the Miocene age., the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has just located the fossils, which have been lying in an obscure corner of the museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, since they were overlooked when the rest of the Eser collection, which contained the types, was brought to the University ten years...
These fossils have been taken as the basis for definition of several fish of the Miocene Age, which may be roughly taken as four million years ago, geologists assert...
Suddenly, too acutely aware that half London's delight in them is simply its eagerness to be present at another "Crowne show," like Norman's disaster, Emily asks Philip Luttrell to marry her; Philip Luttrell, a country parson who has developed in his middle age a tardy adolescent adoration for her, covers his surprise with delight. Restraining a last minute eagerness to run away from the country wedding, Emily waits until she reaches London on the first night of her honeymoon to dodge Philip and go back to her brother. But at the house in Edwardes Square...