Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designer and builder of fortifications, roads, and bridges that facilitated the movement of troops, many centuries age, was called a military engineer. By contrast, the designer, and builder of civil works, such as highways, canals, bridges, and buildings to be used in the peaceful development of a country was called a "civil engineer." Although, strictly speaking, all engineers not engaged in military works are civil engineers, the expansion and diversification of engineering associated with the last century have necessarily restricted the application of the term civil engineering to include such activities as the design and construction of public works, large...
...with Flying Over Ethiopian Mountain Ranges by Vittorio Mussolini, a 150-page book published last week in Rome. "My purpose is to have Italian youth learn from a young man," wrote Author Vittorio, ''what it feels like to be fighting a war when only 20 years of age, and to be above war's sorrows, seeing only its beauties...
Died. Bonita, 21, mongrel fox terrier which sulked three days beneath the coffin of her owner, the late Horticulturist Luther Burbank while he lay in state after his death in 1926; of old age; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
...York City 1,000 girls under the age of 10 are annually forbidden to attend school lest they infect other little girls with vaginitis. Fortnight ago Director William Freeman Snow of the American Social Hygiene Association collated data to show that in the nation there are 200,000 children known to be similarly infected. Actually the cause of vaginitis is gonorrhea which children contract usually by contact with their older sisters or mothers. Dr. Snow hoped that by publishing his statistics he might arouse the U. S. to a new sector of the venereal front now under attack by public...
Last week at Lebanon, Pa., Dr. William Moore Guilford celebrated his 105th birthday. He began practice in 1852, is now the oldest U. S. doctor in point of service as well as of age. The University of Pennsylvania publicists, who snapped Alumnus Guilford up to exploit that institution's bicentennial celebration in 1940, claim that Dr. Guilford is the world's oldest doctor and the oldest graduate of a U. S. university. Still better publicity was the fact, that for Thanksgiving dinner Dr. Guilford ate turkey, two helpings of mince pie, took some wine, smoked an extra (fourth...