Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young men who don black robes and tassled caps this week. They make their last appearance as undergraduates. They pay their final respects to their beloved Harvard. Then the long marching line will stride out the gates of the Yard. They will surrender her o'er to "the age that is waiting before...
...people in the U. S. die from diseases of the circulatory system (hardening of the arteries, heart trouble), 12.5% from diseases of the respiratory system (pneumonia, influenza), 12.5% from cancer, 8.5% from kidney disease, the rest from diseases of the digestive system, or accidents. Prime affliction of old age is hardening of the arteries, which throws healthy, durable hearts and kidneys out of kilter, often brings about insanity and may contribute to diabetes...
...Greatest problem of old age: resignation. Contrary to popular belief, old people are far from sexless. The flow of sex hormones does not ebb when men reach their 60s and 70s. Says Columbia's Anatomist Earl Theron Engle, spermatozoa are formed in at least 50% of old men. Bending a Freudian ear to their querulous complaints, Psychiatrist Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton of Santa Barbara, Calif, offers the opinion that old men & women are no less troubled by sex problems than are the young. Says he: "Many persons . . . who have passed their sixtieth year vaguely feel that it is time...
Visitors to Magnolia Cemetery in Spartanburg, S. C., can read on a gravestone: In memory of William Walker, A.S.H. Died Sept. 24, 1875, in the 67th year of his age. He was a devoted Husband and kind Father. A consistent Baptist 47 yrs. Taught music 45 yrs. The Author of 4 Books of sacred music. He rests from his labors. He died in the triumphs of faith. Sing praises unto the Lord...
...Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, sung in a high thin voice, was long a tear-jerker). He was a prodigious letter writer, in Rome used to rise at four or five o'clock, write 35 letters before breakfast. In his Villa Tennyson at San Remo he died: age...