Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Tennessee's new law setting 16 years as the minimum age for brides brought 12-year-old Geneva Hamby Peel and gangling, 32-year-old Homer Peel into court at Madisonville. But Judge A. T. Stewart sent the child back to the hills with her husband in the belief that she would be better off there than with her ne'er-do-well mother or in a State institution...
...baby was born, was adopted by the grandparents and named Mary Joan Gibson. She died at the age of twelve days of bleeding at the navel. Her father went to Sing Sing; her mother married Walter Mitchell Schubert in 1936; her grandparents, dropped out of the Social Register, remained at "Tappancroft," their integrity and independence intact (TIME...
Sample guides for girls: A woman is no less rash than a man if she marries before she has sown her wild oats. Sowing season: ten to 15 years, beginning at the age of 15. Purpose: to exhaust the "polygamous instinct." which is probably stronger in women than men. Harmony in marriage depends on "bodily adaptation," which depends on the sexual tact of the husband, which depends on his premarriage initiation, which is usually bad. To end this vicious circle, let girls of good will turn teachers. "You must finish with love before you become good, unless you want love...
...William Donald Urry of Massachusetts Institute of Technology read a paper on the ages of iron meteorites. Ages are measured in the same way as those of terrestrial rocks; by the amount of decomposition of radioactive material. "A very young iron meteorite," said Dr. Urry, "is 100,000,000 years old. The oldest is 2,900,000,000 years old." The last figure is just within the upper limit commonly given by geologists for the age of the earth and the solar system. Dr. Urry believes that iron meteorites are the debris of planets which have broken up within...
...persons under 16 from piloting airplanes, promptly started to investigate and discovered that Edward had an illegal student's permit. While Edward was packed off to his grandfather's, his father, a War pilot, admitted: "Frankly, I tried to get the Air Bureau here to waive the age limit but the Bureau refused and I told Edward. He brought me an application and said, 'Sign here.' I did, but I didn't notice the age. Evidently he lied a little bit about his age...