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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them how he chloroformed Jerry, now grown to a 17O-lb. six-footer. He explained that he had done it to put the boy out of misery and, as a final horror, because a doctor had warned him that the imbecile boy, whose body was grown and whose mental age was two, might attack his own mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...gift for thematic invention admired even by Bach who borrowed extensively from his works. The Longy School faculty concert tonight at Agassiz Theatre will present Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"--decidedly worth hearing as a typical example of the formal clarity and facility of this less familiar music of the age of Bach and Handel...

Author: By L. C. Helvik, | Title: The Music Box | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

Looking over its 44,000,000 old-age-insurance accounts, the Social Security Board named its "First 50 Families." First: Smith (418,000). Next in order: Johnson (350,530); Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...month deducted from paychecks and matched by at least an equivalent sum from the company. How much Ford will kitty in remains to be calculated by actuaries, but will probably come to some $1,200,000 a year. Employes will pay $1 a month no matter what their age, need take no physical exams. Because the average age of the entire group is expected to remain constant, the insurance is offered at a steady premium, whereas an individual taking out term insurance finds his premiums mounting sharply with age. Therefore, Ford workers are getting protection far more cheaply than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Third Largest | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...London, the gaffers of the Royal Meteorological Society, impressed by the excellent observations he had been mailing in for three years, proffered Roger Cade a fellowship in the Society. Roger proved to be 14 years old. Anxious beard-wagging over the by-laws discovered no age limit at either end for Fellows, so Roger Cade was admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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