Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February 28-The calling up of men from 25 to 30 years of age...
...age group is immune from some type of cancer. Newborn or very young children may have cancer of the kidneys or brain. Adolescents may have cancer of the bones or connective tissue, especially in the legs and arms. Cancer of the uterus or breast occurs in women at menopause, but cancer of the stomach or intestine rarely occurs in women under 50. Cancer of the prostate gland usually attacks only old men. Cancer of the skin may appear at any age, but most skin cancers are found in old persons...
...does not heal in two weeks; small tender spots on the lips and tongue of smokers; loss of appetite and indigestion; persistent hoarseness not caused by a cold; moles, warts and wens. Every person has an average of 27 small blemishes on his body, says Dr. Little. At middle age these "small centers of overgrowth of tissue" may start to grow again and become tender. Prompt treatment prevents them from becoming cancerous...
...went into self-imposed exile, but he never got out from under the shadow. On his travels he made friends with Stefan Zweig, Alfred Neumann, Franz Werfel, and wrote two first-class novels, Child of Our Time and The Age of the Fish. Last week the latter was published in English...
...short, sharply chiseled chapters, some of which are little essays on autocracy, some of which are so rhetorical that they scan even in translation, The Age of the Fish warns that the world is floating into cold times in which "the souls of men, my friend, will become as rigid as the face of a fish." Its narrator is a young teacher, who learns that under the State he must criticize his pupils' essays not for saying that Negroes are animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies...