Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps the earth's poles were in different places then [in the ice age], allowing a temperate zone to curve unbroken al the way from the U.S. to Peru" [TIME...
...among us truly amazed that one John G. Winant could no longer endure this age [TIME, Nov. 10]? The marvel is that many more of us have not taken the same way out. We have lived through ten years of hell-the most diabolical "witches' sabbath" ever put on since the beginning of recorded time. Thirty million people, men, women & children, have been starved, tortured, shot, blown to bits, frozen, gassed*-murdered by every conceivable method of fiendish cruelty -mostly at the hands of "civilized, enlightened, cultured, progressive, democratic Christian nations." And the end is not yet. We have...
...John Adams was a scarcely tolerated rebel whose main job was to keep the U.S. out of Europe's troubles. At No. 6, even though he was a dogged Anglophile, Walter Page was but a second-level member of London's diplomatic corps in an age when most Americans still thought of international diplomacy with all the repugnance of a Victorian lady contemplating...
...year from the Egyptian government, is also heavily endowed by wealthy Moslem alumni. There are no entrance exams, though every Egyptian student is expected to know the Koran (the Moslem Bible and Al Azhar's main textbook) by heart-a feat they master by the age...
Most exciting to archeologists is the great age of the camp sites. The artifacts were imbedded in a layer of "old soil." Above them lay many, feet of wind-deposited material (loess), the result of great dust storms associated with the last (Mankato) glacial advance, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Apparently man reached Nebraska early enough to feel the effect of ice when it last crept toward his hunting grounds...