Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this age of reckless youth the exponents of authority and prestige are rarely caught endangering their reputations. Age must always balance youth by setting a good example. Even in Harvard temerity is one quality not courted by a professor. Weighted as he is by books and degrees, not to mention years, and redolent of the musty archives of Widener, he generally escapes the prankster proclivity. He, no more than the fun-loving undergraduates, can afford to have his name in the paper in a scandalous fashion. Thus it was with some surprise that the students in History 60a learned yesterday...
Granted, many people are prone to leave all the work in a course until the last few days, but presumably if they are of age and mentality sufficient unto the college course they will be able to get through by themselves. If so, well and good, and they will profit far more from the work of this cramming than from having a painless filling up on the south side of the Avenue. If they can't well and good. Out they go. As is, they might get their diplomas from the people that do teach them, if the process...
...employers, the Manhattan brokerage house of Weingarten & Co. last week issued a table of the ratio of labor costs to total business in a score of industries. Labor costs mean wages, and wages are what employers will pay taxes on-in 1937, 2% for unemployment insurance, i% for old age insurance. Averaging for the last 20 years...
...defense of Russia's new constitution, alleged to provide for the suffrage of 98.2 per cent of the population over 18 years of age, came to Harvard on Saturday less than an hour after the document had been adopted by the U.S.S.R., in the person of Constantin A. Oumansky, counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, speaking before Law School Students in Langdell Hall...
According to Counsellor Oumansky, the new document provides for universal suffrage, regardless of race, sex, color, creed or previous political affiliations, so that more than 98.2 per cent of all Russians over the age of 18 will now take an active part in the affairs of their government...