Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Measuring Stick." Engineers like to express themselves in letters and symbols. Without saying so officially, Ambassador Gibson conveyed unmistakably to correspondents that he had received from President Hoover a draft formula or naval "measuring stick," in which "A" stood for age, "C" for calibre, "D" for displacement. The list of categories remains as under Calvin Coolidge: 1) Capital Ships; 2) Aircraft Carriers (both of these already limited under the Washington Conference Treaty); 3) Cruisers; 4) Destroyers; 5) Submarines. With correspondents Mr. Gibson went so far as to indicate, several days after his speech, that the British had not even...
Last week all the world knew that Frau Sacher ruled her hotel no longer. Viennese looked at the announcement over their coffee and whipped cream, and wondered. Was Edouard tired of paying Mamma's bills? Was Frau Anna, now nearly 70, retiring from old age? Had she, who wore an ermine wrap as a bathrobe, finally grown too eccentric...
England was healthy, wealthy, wiser than it knew. Upthrusting middle classes were doing wonders in commerce. All over Europe, Henry's age (1500-1550) was a time bursting with new vigor. Old disciplines were breaking down. New countries were opening up?America, Africa. India. The imaginations of men burned with dreams of gold to be brought back by far-ranging ships. Had there been newspapers then, the following names would have been in the headlines? Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, Copernicus, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Holbein, Cellini, Erasmus, Cranmer, Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Luther, Rabelais. Machiavelli, Loyola...
...employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath...
...measuring pork production is to estimate the weight of pig litters at the age of six months. This system forms the basis of an annual nationwide contest, conducted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in which farmers pit themselves against each other in the matter of six-month-old litters, of a ton or more weight. Last week the results for 1928 were announced. Farmers in 30 states produced 492 ton-or-more litters, Pennsylvania winning with 65. Idaho had the heaviest litter-14 piglets totaling 4,156 pounds...