Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Youngest of a farmer's brood of eight, George McGill was moved from Iowa to Kansas at the age of 4, hoed and harvested on his father's farm until he left to work his way through Central Normal College at Great Bend, Kans. and to study...
...sentence sample of sententious Presidential philosophy: "It takes a long, long time to bring the past up to the present." Second came the case of California for which Franklin Roosevelt was not prepared. At the news that Senator "Dear Mac" McAdoo had been swamped by the old-age pensioneer, Sheridan Downey (see p. 26), the President masked neither his surprise nor chagrin, but he made a quick recovery, cheerfully accepted Nominee Downey as a true liberal, let National Chairman Jim Farley promise him election support...
When its new law for State aid to the indigent aged (over 65), the blind, and to dependent children (effective September 1) was approved last week by the U. S. Social Security Board, Virginia qualified for Federal old-age assistance. Result: every State in the union now provides such assistance. Total aged now Federally aided: 1,721,000. Add for Virginia...
Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking man), of receding, apelike chin and human brain case and teeth, who is approximately the same age as Pithecanthropus. His skull was discovered near Peking in 1929 by Chinese Anthropologist...
...jitterbugs filled the seats in Soldier Field. Police closed the gates, but reopened them under pressure from a mob outside. At 7 p. m. there were 100,000, average age 18. By the time the swing session began, 200,000 screaming, jittering, snake-dancing, stampeding youngsters were at large in the stadium, and hell was loose...