Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Berlin in 1893, has been a resident of Long Island since 1934, expects to become a U. S. citizen. Condemned to death as a pacifist during the War, he was let off with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis, the swinish profiteer and his fat mistresses. He escaped Nazi...
...Except for the moment when four terrified white horses seemed ready to jump into the orchestra pit, the opera proceeded without a hitch and made San Francisco's grizzled Conductor Alfred Hertz exclaim: "He showed a mastery of musical forces quite unusual at his early age. He has quite a career ahead...
...student opinion. If this is to be stifled and strangled by bigoty and short-sightedness of the type that fostered the Teachers Oath Bill in Massachusetts; if the members of one of the country's large universities--most of whom, it was found in a poll, were over the age of twenty-one--are not considered capable or worthy of speaking their minds, then it is time to bring out into the open the uniforms and armbands that are the proper acoutrements of such folly...
Except for the pontifical autobiography that the late John Hays Hammond wrote at the age of 80, U. S. mining engineers have been surprisingly reticent about their world-wide rovings, their climbs up high mountains and descents into the deep earth. Last week a successful mining engineer now little more than half Hammond's age offered a volume of reminiscence as informal as Hammond's was ponderous, less than half as long and twice as funny, and dealing with events that were as inconsequential as those that Hammond recorded were important. Saying he "would not be so brash...
...County, with dissenting blood as strong as lye." When he got the call to be a missionary nothing could stop him, neither the opposition of his father, his lack of resources nor the five years he had to spend on the farm before he could start college at the age of 21. Daughter Pearl Buck asked him how he had proposed to Carrie, when he was ready to take her along on his mission. "I wrote her a letter," he said. 'It seemed to me to be the only way of putting everything clearly before her for her mature...