Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Feb. 16, you say under the rather absurd heading MILESTONES: "Mr. Dempsey gave his occupation as "business man." Miss Taylor gave her age as 26 (probable age, 32)." I am not interested in either Mr. Dempsey or Miss Taylor. I do not care how old she is. Whether she lies about her age or not is entirely immaterial to most of your subscribers, no doubt. But, I do think it most undignified, in fact little short of childish, for such a magazine as TIME aspires to be to add in parthesis "probable age, 32." That...
TIME, conscious that it would incur censure by so doing, nevertheless published Miss Taylor's probable age because it believed the matter to be of news value...
...fellowships to "both men and women of proved ability", giving them facilities for research and graduate work "anywhere in the world where they can work most profitably. This plan is broader than the famed Foundation,* organized 21 years ago by Cecil Rhodes (TIME, DEC. 22). It recognizes no age limit,† no restriction of subjects for research, specifying only that the fellows shall produce contributions to knowledge and that they shall make their contributions available to the public. The fund is to be a memorial to Mr. Guggenheim's son, John S. Guggenheim, who died three years ago when...
...however, "expected that ordinarily they will not be younger than 25 or older than 35 years." (The Rhodes age limit...
Professor Lanman is internationally famous for his researches in Indian Philology and for his work in editing the Harvard Oriental Series, which is the most authoritative extant translation of Oriental writings. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1850, and at the age of 17 entered Yale. After graduating from the college and Scientific School, he went to Tuebingen, Germany to study under the great Sanskritist, Rudolph Roth...