Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent the formation of an anti-administration coalition, and can possibly create his own coalition, and can possibly create his own coalition of liberal Democrats and Republicans. Succeeding here, he would be able to push through the principal legislation on his agenda--broad extension of old-age security--while at the same time consolidating his constructive measures of the past. And, by veering more toward the middle-of-the-road policies decreed by the electorate, he would mend his fences for 1940, enabling himself to name his successor or to run for the third term if a suitable personality does...
...England. Maine has already voted Republican, with confusing pressure from the Townsend old-age pension element. Vermont, still Republican, can contribute only one piece of news to the election: if it should go Democratic it would signify that a fourth successive New Deal landslide had hit the nation. New Hampshire, a more sensitive indicator, needs to swing only slightly to revert to Republicanism...
Properly impressed by the dramatic fact that people who were children in 1903 had barely reached middle age by the time Franco's bombers were pounding Barcelona, Director Wellman, who helped concoct his own story, tried to reflect the whole bright saga of flying through the prism of a conventional triangle plot. When Pat Falconer, Scott Barnes and Peggy Ranson are moppets, sailing kites in imitation of the airship Peggy's inventor father is trying to rig up in his workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland...
That Certain Age (Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper; TIME...
That a bad environment works the other way was proved in a study of 988 orphan age children, whose life was educationally and socially impoverished. Their I. Q.s fell. Crowning study was one conducted in an orphanage where some children were given nursery-school training several hours a day. The school children gained in intelligence while their comrades who did not go to school lost and some became feeble minded. The station's researches show that young children's gains in intelligence tend to be permanent...