Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 7 Commencement ceremony celebrating the soth anniversary of Occidental College, located in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, the college's greatest literary son, Robinson Jeffers, '05, was awarded an honorary Litt.D. Born the same year as Occidental (1887), Jeffers took his B.A. there at the age of 18. He also studied medicine at the University of Southern California, forestry at the University of Washington and literature at the University of Zurich. Occidental's is the only honorary degree he has ever accepted...
...Delta Burial Corp. advertises in the Anniversary program: "Persons from the age of 21 to 45, for the small sum of 25? per month, are eligible for the following service: Semi Half Couch Casket and Box. Embalming, Robe and Hearse Service anywhere in the State of Mississippi. . . . We are in a position to have four funerals a day, with each 200 miles apart, and have each of them at the same hour...
...Coast & Geodetic Survey as a quartermaster on the U. S. S. Lydonia. It was while serving on the Lydonia that he met his future wife, who was born Agnes Brown in the Black. Craig Hills of Scotland, and brought to the U. S. by her parents at age 12. Shortly after he met her, Harry Bridges gave up the sea, settling down in San Francisco as a longshoreman...
...Navy and many a naval officer says privately there never will be. Oscar De Priest, three-term Republican Congressman (1929-35) from Chicago's colored district, appointed three Negroes to the Naval Academy. None got in. One was disqualified for imperfect eyesight, one because of age (limits are 16-20), one flunked the entrance exams. Negro Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell who defeated Mr. De Priest in 1934 had better luck. Year ago he appointed James Lee Johnson Jr., who got into the Naval Academy, lasted one semester, was then flunked out (TIME, March 1). Congressman Mitchell protested volubly...
Mice are adult at the age of twelve weeks, "old men" at two years. Six weeks after birth they are quite tame and can be taught tricks (climbing ladders, working treadmills). They are ready to mate at the age of seven weeks, but wise breeders wait until the buck has reached ten weeks, the doe twelve. Each buck has six wives at a time, but every couple of months all but one doe are taken out to give the buck a rest. A mouse is pregnant 19 to 21 days, litters are from five to ten mouselets. Bucks are never...