Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both men were born talkers and they got along famously. Frankfurter had been born in Vienna to a family of rabbis, learned to speak English (with an occasional thickened s) after he was brought to the U. S. at the age of twelve. From a job delivering chemicals at $4 a week he worked his way through New York's City College into the Harvard Law School, which graduated him with highest honors in 1906. After a spell of moneymaking in the Stimson office and three years in Washington as law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs...
...South African teeth, Dr. Gregory also found connections with Peking Man, the orangutan, and Sivapithecus, a manlike fossil ape discovered many years ago in India. The geological character of the ground, however, indicated that Dr. Broom's creatures lived relatively late in the Glacial Age, by which time definitely human types such as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Heidelberg Man had already appeared. Plesianthropus and Paranthropus thus appeared as laggard survivors of a much earlier evolutionary spurt-"conservative cousins of man," says Dr. Gregory, "and progressive cousins of the modern apes...
...work of each volunteer is to take a class of students, ranging in age from 16 down, for weekly instruction in some particular field, which may be either academic or athletic. The young teachers work along with and guide their proteges in arranging exhibits for the fast-approaching Fair, which is always one of the highlights of Boston's winter schedule of events...
...becoming increasingly important from reading the above paragraph that mature men and women should have some knowledge about birth control and the many causes of divorce. Also they should know something of the effects such differences as age, class, grade, religion, occupation, politics, hobby, color, and sex have upon marital relations. Since every one of these factors has a great bearing on the success of failure of a marriage, expert information on such subjects ought to be available to college students...
Most colorful opposition was maintained by Collis E. Redd, self-styled National Director of the Constitutional Crusaders of America. When he was before the committee, Redd said he represented the interests of the "consumer, the unemployed and the old-age pensioners...