Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most perplexing to young folk was Sex. This generation of parents, the conferees believed, is too busy or too puzzled to give adequate answers to its children's sex questions. U. S. high schools, the Commission on Human Relations later found, which receive Youth at the age when the sex problem is most insistent, have made slight progress in the past 17 years toward providing this information. In a survey by the U. S. Public Health Service and American Social Hygiene Association in 1920, only 8% of the nation's high schools reported they gave coordinated sex instruction...
Dean Donham, who preceded the President, reviewed the 30 years of the school that has "a little less than 10 percent of the age of the University," and spoke at some length on the late George P. Baker, donor of the group of buildings...
...from the minor leagues. For their showing Boston credited Manager McKechnie's shrewd choice of two "old rookies," Pitchers Jim Turner and Lou Fette, who proceeded to win 18 and 17 games respectively this season, simply providing a fresh demonstration of the axiom that 30 is the best age for a pitcher. Competing with Charley Dressen's Reds for the tail end position were Jim Wilson's Philadelphia Phillies, with Burleigh Grimes's Brooklyn Dodgers just escaping the ignominy of the cellar...
...sport and has been carrying his doodlebug around to races in a specially built truck for four years, his $1,500 share of the prize money was the biggest he had ever won. To his colleagues it was conclusive proof that their diminutive sport was rapidly coming of age...
...Department of Government's program was initiated in 1934 to prepare recent college graduates or those with one or two years' practical experience, but not over 24 years of age, for positions as legislators or administrators in Federal, state, and local governments, and as publicists or trade association officials...