Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lois Henderson, age 22, was graduated from Wilson College in 1947 with an English major, Classical Languages minor . . . [She] obtained her first job in Pittsburgh selling notions in a department store, take-home pay $22.50 a week...
...frittered away his chances. Why? The Presidency is an honor few men would willingly forgo. It was an honor Vandenberg himself had hoped for in 1936 and in 1940, when his chances of winning the election were considerably less. But his own position in history was now secure, his age (64) and his health (a "slow heart") might be severely tried by the burdens of the White House. It was a choice he could not bring himself to make...
...provinces and the progressive bands who live farther south. Changing the way of life of the Indians on the 2,250 reservations scattered across Canada will be at best a slow job. Even the rich Indian likes the security of the reservation, often returns to it in old age, wants to be buried in its cemetery. Said a 72-year-old Piegan Indian in Alberta last week: "We're not bothering anyone. So leave us alone...
Actress Peggy Wood, longtime top-ranking sweet young thing, now playing mother roles: "Every age has its particular compensations...
There are two theories, said Dr. Colbert, of how the molar may have got so far from land, 1) The dead mastodon, enclosed in a block of ice, may have drifted down the Hudson-then a great, glacier-fed river. Some geologists believe that during the Pleistocene Age the ocean was lower because the glaciers that covered much of the land locked up so much water. So 2) the mastodon may have walked to the scallop bank on its own big feet...