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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back upon the good books of the Social Security Board in Washington last week went the indigent aged, the needy blind, the dependent minors of Oklahoma. They had been cut off in March when Washington discovered monstrous and comical padding of the old-age rolls by corpses, well-off oldsters, asylum inmates, a Negro registered under two names, etc., etc. (TIME, March 7). When the State Welfare Commission declared it had purified its relief system, SSB waited a few weeks to be sure the purge was permanent. Satisfied last week, SSB resumed matching each Oklahoma welfare dollar with a Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Purged & Restored | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...five youngsters (including almost half of the married couples) are living with their parents. Only 3% of the unmarried ones want to leave home. Nearly all want to marry, have a home and children (but not so many as their parents). Youth is still marrying early; median marrying age of the Maryland boys was 21, of the girls, 19, and 13% of the brides had married at 16 or younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youth's Story | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston speaks to almost anybody, but his thoughts are definitely heavenward. He is 77, and in his old age he broods much about the vast stores of energy in sunlight which man does not utilize. In his youth he was closer to earth. Fresh from Harvard with a magna cum laude (1882), he went out to western Pennsylvania to help his brother build a plant for making carbon black (used in printing ink, shoe polish, automobile tires, etc.) from natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solar Attack | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...front pages when he eliminated Bobby Jones in the first round of match play. But in his home town Johnny Goodman had long been front-page news, was as much a part of Omaha as its stockyards. He first appeared in the news in 1916 when, at the age of six, he got diphtheria. Omaha health officers, going to the Goodman home, found Johnny sleeping with three other children in one bed, four more Goodman children in another bed in the same room. Mother Goodman, accustomed to peasant ways, refused to send Johnny to an isolation hospital or keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Jones | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...look alike. While hospital nurses washed and fed them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both jobless Spaniards. Luis' mother had been minding the babies after a fashion since they were born last month. And somebody had named them José de Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers and Twins | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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