Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increased productivity, and widespread and full distribution of goods are essential if we are to raise the real income of our people to levels hitherto undreamed . . . Communism was not conceived as an answer to this problem. Communism is essentially a political idea, not a scientific blueprint for a machine age...
Walter Damrosch, 86, leonine founding father of the New York Symphony, resigned as president of the august American Academy of Arts & Letters, which had elected him to the job seven times. "I think I have arrived at an age," said he, "when the position . . . should be filled by a younger...
...hole in the head is one of the oldest operations in medical history. Some half a million years ago, Stone Age medicine men were treating their patients by trephining (cutting out a circular piece of the skull). Evidence of their flint-knife gouging can still be seen in prehistoric skulls. Witch doctors in Melanesia and northern Africa still perform similar operations to cure insanity (a hole in the head is a handy exit for demons...
...Prince. As the greatest fop and dandy of his age, Christopher Sykes was, in dress and person, a work of art-but a work of art peculiarly Victorian. "Where the fops of other ages took the butterfly as their model, he found inspiration in heavier matter. Dignity, majesty, and beautiful gloom, rather than brilliant skimming coloured parabolas, provide the keynote of his style." With his tall, elegant stoop and long golden beard, Christopher had the aspect of a late Roman emperor, and it was this aspect, apparently, that on one fateful occasion tempted the jovial prince to empty a glass...
...convocation, perhaps the most important event of the international academic year, will honor a university which gives precedence in age only to Peking, Paris, and Oxford. Representatives from every major center of learning in the world had accepted invitations to the gathering late this week...