Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earliest Hamlet in the collection is the versatile David Garrick, who appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre in the age of Doctor Johnson. Following him at the Drury Lane came John Philip Kemble, who with his methodical, regular, precise interpretation earned a lasting stage reputation...
...State College on its ninetieth birthday party yesterday, both his presence and the words of his mouth gave striking witness to the basic validity of the Harvard educational ideal. Reversing the process of last September, when Mr. Conant gathered world-wide greetings in honor of his own university's age and pre-eminence, the president has taken up the gage of responsibility that pre-eminence demands. His speech at Iowa City not only conveys anniversary regards to a younger institution, but trumpets to the nation at large the message of high scholarship and of opportunity for all who deserve...
...Total U. S. railroad trackage abandoned in 1936 was 1,523 mi., Railway Age reported last week. Abandoned mileage since 1932 totaled...
...evangelization. Last week when the news papers were still carrying dispatches from Tennessee where a nine-year-old girl had become a bride (TIME, Feb. 8, 15), news hawks turned up at Calvary to hear a visiting Tennessee preacher, Rev. Dr. Robert Jones. He said Tennessee had set no age limit for marriages because "we just took it for granted that everybody had sense enough not to marry so young. . . We have 50 colleges and universities in Tennessee, and there isn't a more cultured State in the Union...
...billboard, figure skating is to what most people do when they exercise on ice. Half sport, half art, it requires a course of training feasible only because figure skaters begin their vocation soon after leaving the cradle. When Robin Huntingdon Lee became U. S. champion at the age of 15, in 1935, he was no prodigy but a veteran of eight years' arduous training. Last week Robin Lee, Maribel Vinson, Erie Reiter and the rest of the small company of U. S. figure skating virtuosos were at Chicago to whirl, spin and leap for U. S. championships...