Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several times before a peerage had been offered to Mr. Asquith, but he resolutely refused the honor; for to enter the House of Lords' powerless debating chamber, would have been to commit political suicide. At the age of 73, however, and with the fortunes of the Liberal Party at their lowest ebb, the barrier to the Lords was obviously removed. Were it not that he was opposed in principle to accepting honors for himself, the matter might rest there; but, as London club talk had it, his last scruples were overcome by his dynamic wife...
...members of the University over 18 years of age will be eligible for the course. It consists of a period of training for college students in aviation, which is given during the summer vacation at Squantum. Last year, among the ten students who were members of the first class were numbered several University students, some of whom have already received their commissions as officers in the Naval Reserve Force...
...information given in the footnote were correct, the comparison is not justified. Believing that you would be interested in accurate data as to fatalitities and casualties on American railroads, I quote the following from a letter 1 have received from Mr. B. B. Adams of the Railway Age, New York, in response to my letter in which I called his attention to the article in TIME...
...find in I. C. C. records printed in The Railway Age Gazette for years ending June 30, 1923, for Class 1 and Class 2 roads...
...description of a storm and its awful power over man as I have seen in many a day. My commendation will mean little but I felt that I must express myself and that it might interest you to know someone else appreciated a really imaginative attempt to do an age-old subject in a new-age...