Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with deep satisfaction that I read, at last, in a national magazine the clear, simple statement of our only hope as individuals and as nations in the Atomic Age...
...months to their highest level in 30 years, showed a sign of receding. In the key Pittsburgh area, the price of heavy melting scrap in one large sale dropped $2 a ton, down to $40. The widespread prospects of further drops from recent "fantastic" highs, said the weekly Iron Age, "gives steel producers hope that present steel price levels can be maintained...
...which Edna, her spinster daughter, would now inherit along with other odds & ends of property and nondescript furnishings. Edna had devoted her life to Mother. Edna was fiftyish. "What a relief for Edna," whispered the family. "She must feel that she's starting life again-and at her age...
...original judges for the Book-of-the-Month Club, Henry Seidel Canby has been a proficient and even an eminent middleman of letters. His reflections about U.S. life & literati are noteworthy. This book includes two revised but previously published works-one on the '905, The Age of Confidence (1934), one on Yale (1936) and a newly composed section on U.S. literature. The author refers to himself as sensitive. He is certainly observant and shrewd...
...were content to remain young. There was, he thinks, a more serene friendliness between boys & girls when sexuality was postponed in favor of romance. "Statisticians have yet to reckon the nerve strain in American life which comes from precocious attempts at maturity and painful struggles to retard middle age...