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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Shakespeare (no kin), 83; of old age; in Stratford-on-Avon, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Five Kings, Part I (adapted by Orson Welles from Shakespeare's King Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V; produced by the Theatre Guild Inc.). When Richard Bentley, the greatest English classical scholar of his age, read Alexander Pope's famed translation of the Iliad, he remarked: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." In Boston last week, when Orson Welles presented the first half of his much-touted, much-trimmed version of Shakespeare's chronicle plays, certain it was that-pretty or otherwise-Welles should not call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Play on the Road | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Suzie, on the other hand, had buck teeth and stringy hair and decided that she was not going to get married. But she was even in a worse fix than Jenny. If she continued to work as a waitress in the University until the retirement age of 65, contributing faithfully to her Annuity all the time, she would have a retirement income of approximately $14 per month in return for her long and loyal service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENSION PARADOX | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...greatly simplified terms, the fictitious cases of Jenny and Suzie are the problems which the Administration must face in connection with the recent Union agitation about the Pension Plan. On one side is Jenny whose job is temporary, whose wages must fill an immediate need, and whose old age security lies with her husband. On the other is Suzie whose job is permanent, whose wages must fill a future need as well as an immediate one, and whose old age security depends on no one but herself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENSION PARADOX | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...which is guaranteed to waitresses outside educational institutions and who are legally included in the Government's Social Security Program. Hence the University should step in and make a concerted effort to raise retirement incomes of employees who, like Suzie, will have no other income when they reach the age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENSION PARADOX | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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