Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Does the State of Oregon actually believe that a child of 12 or 13 once sexually enlightened will wait until, let's say, the ripe old age of 18 to put into practice what he's learned? I doubt it. ... Talking about sex only breeds desires...
Vital Statistics. Age: 57 (born March 19, 1891 in a five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street). Ancestry: his grandfather was Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, who came to the U.S. with his wife and two sons, settled in Iowa and anglicized his name; his father, Methias H. Warren,-born in Norway, moved from Iowa to California, became a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific. His mother, Crystal Hernland, was the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Educated: Kern County (Calif.) high school, the University of California (1912), U. of C.'s School of Jurisprudence (1914). Married...
...middle of the road. Though a solid Republican, he has taken advantage of state electoral laws to run on both Democratic & Republican tickets, has appointed office holders of both parties. He has also 1) cut the state sales tax from 3% to 2½ %; 2) raised old age pensions from $40 to $50 a month; 3) ticketed $450 million for postwar development; 4) raised gas taxes by 1½? a gallon (over oilmen's protests) to finance new highway construction; 5) widened unemployment insurance coverage; 6) signed a bill outlawing jurisdictional strikes; 7) streamlined the state guard...
...Wonder. Europe's pride is the tender and assertive pride of age. The fashion now among such British intellectuals as Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Essayist Cyril Connolly is to say that only the dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more...
Something Unusual. At the age of seven, Healer Mowatt accidentally blinded one of his eyes with a knife; he soon lost the sight of the other one as well. For the next decade he struggled with black despair. But gradually his courage and his faith in God won him such independence from his blindness that he was even able to ride to hounds with a friend guiding his horse and calling the jumps. In his twenties he devoted himself to full-time work with the blind. But it was not until about ten years ago that he began to discover...