Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realize that TIME endeavors to write up its news items in a way that is different and to convey much meaning in a few words, all of which is desirable, particularly in this day and age when too much is said about too little. It seems to me, however, that the adjectives applied to Cincinnati have accomplished no particular good, nor are they entirely accurate ... In our efforts to attract further industries to Cincinnati ... we are pointing out the many advantages Cincinnati has to offer to new industries and new people who are about to locate here, and naturally...
...first time in history, the U.S. woman can expect to reach the biblical age of threescore years and ten. On the basis of 1946 death rates, the U.S. Public Health Service announced last week, the average white woman's life expectancy is 70.3 years, that of white-men, 65.1.* The margin of difference between the races has been narrowing since 1900, but the average life span of non-whites is still much lower: for non-white women, 61 years; for non-white men, 57.5. General U.S. average is nearly 67 years, which is one year longer than...
...Under most pension plans, the retirement age...
...second half of life . . . there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding, a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age had given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook...
...figures Henry James was later aspishly to describe as having "no more outline than a bundle of hay." But in the midst of all this intellectual mooning there was great and solid achievement; this was the New England of Emerson and Hawthorne, of Thoreau, Lowell and Longfellow-the golden age of American letters...