Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might of the pen having far surpassed the menace of the sword, it is hardly surprising that an age over-supplied with scribblers should invent a new outlet for ink. What better diversion than further to usurp the functions of the sword...
...chief elements in Soviet education. The communist leaders of Russia believe that their only hope of overcoming the unsocial instincts and personal greed of the peasants is through education. Their general plan of training thus comprises the following stages: first the child must be taken at a very early age and his social instincts fostered, then he is taught some practical science, and finally is given some idea of the theories of socialism...
Another noteworthy characteristic of Russ an education is that it is frankly altruistic. Lenin said that the most harmful influence among the human beings of the present age is the muddle of superstitions called religion. This sentiment is fully carried out in the Soviet instruction, which seeks completely to eradicate from the minds of the masses the religious feelings which still are lodged in them...
Friends of the Judge chuckled to recall that his age has been kept out of the U.S. "Who's Who." Inquisitive persons who perused that work, last week, were rebuffed by the statement that he was born "on father's farm nr. Wheaton, Ill." son of "Erastus and Susan" Gary...
Born. To Mrs. Burton S. Tucker, 53, and Tucker, 20, their second child, a son; at Los Angeles. Their marriage, three years ago, gained them national fame and resulted in their indictment on charges of conspiracy and perjury to conceal Mr. Pucker's age (17). Last week their ages were entered on the birth certificate...