Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt story has indeed become a U. S. phenomenon. Reader Larsen's yarn has the odor of age about it, but perhaps TIME readers can report fresher examples...
...Marienbad last week, the age owner of the Hotel Weimar created Czechoslovak stir by opening the "Royal Suite," last occupied in 1909 by British King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra when they came to "take the waters." Down from its wall came a portrait of bewhiskered Kaiser Franz Josef and up went a photograph of smooth-face Führer Henlein. The new occupant of the Suite was Sudeten Nazi Leader Konrad Henlein who went there to confer with representative of Britain's mediator, Viscount Runciman...
Pithecanthropus erectus, of low brow, apelike jaw and human teeth, who browsed on the island of Java during the early Pleistocene period (Ice Age), 500,000 to 1,000,000 years ago. Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Dutch scientist wb discovered the remains in 1892, changed his mind about Pithecanthropus' genus several times, finally concluded that he was an ape. Britain's Sir Arthur Keith, however, world's greatest authority on fossil man, considers Pithecanthropus the earliest known form...
Beginning the 303rd season of Harvard, these men, with an average age of just 18, will step into Memorial Hall, sign their names a dozen times, and step out holding in their hands four years of future Harvard history...
Eons before Franklin Roosevelt strewed Canada's broad Laurentian slope with fistfuls of international amity (see p. 9), Ice Age glaciers had been over the place, scupping out the wide St. Lawrence river bed and garnishing it, like a great dish of trifle, with thousands of inviting islands. Since then many men have visited the Thousand Islands-legendary tribes of gravel-knoll dwellers, red-paint people; then Indians and white men-but until one day last week no summer sightseer could drive through them in his automobile...