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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week several score plump, giggling ladies of a certain age risked their lives riding across the ruffled waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a small tender. The Senate Ladies Club and a collection of wives of the Cabinet and of ex-officials (among them Widow Woodrow Wilson), were off on a jaunt to that sanctum of male Democratic leisure, the Jefferson Islands Club some 20 miles southeast of Annapolis. They had a look through the rambling clubhouse, traipsed over the 34-acre island on which it stands and viewed the Club's 136-acre duck-hunting preserve. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Stags in June | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...average U. S. professional golfer begins his career at the age of 26, earns $2,800 a year and expects to retire at 55. This pertinent information was brought to light last week by Fidelity Investment Association of Wheeling, W. Va., which queried 3,500 professionals. The youngest was 19, the oldest 66. The richest has reaped an average of $11,500 yearly, the poorest $1,068. Less successful as investors than as breadwinners, the golfers reported they had lost $11,000,000, or over $3,000 per man. Three out of four readily admitted that financial worries hurt their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fidelity's Golfer | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...Another weekly got a new publisher last week when Malcolm Muir resigned as president of McGraw-Hill (Business Week, Engineering News-Record, Coal Age, Aviation) to take over the guidance of News-Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Digested Digest | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...University, both by class gifts and in individual donations--gifts which are becoming harder to make and yet which are increasingly needed as time goes on--financial support is far from the primary consideration of the University in welcoming its twenty-fifty classes. For these men are at an age to be called upon for active service on the various governing bodies and the visiting committees of the University, and by their opinion to guide and influence general University policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GLAD HAND TO 1912 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...warfare in this fighting age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text Of President's Baccalaureate Address | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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