Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Age. As he faced the job, no one knew better than Lilienthal the extent of the uncharted wilderness that surrounded him. It was the strange, other-side-of-the-moon wilderness of the Atomic Age. He was not alone in that world. With him were four others: Robert Bacher, Lewis Strauss, William Waymack, Sumner Pike. In innocence and earnestness they had entered their eerie world together on the day last October when President Truman nominated them to be the gods of the atomic mountain, the Commissioners...
...past when Britain's majestic liner Queen Mary had been the sleekest ornament in the luxury passenger service seemed almost like another age. For all the long war years the Mary's career had been grim and dedicated. But last week her widow's weeds were gone. After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial...
...vows before the Quebec Metropolitan Chapter. Then, changing from robes of violet to robes of white, he proceeded to the nearby Basilica of Notre Dame (the same church in which he had been baptised, confirmed, and ordained) for the ritual of enthronement. With all the solemnity that bespeaks the age-old traditions of the Church, the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti, bestowed upon him the crosier, symbolic of his office, then led him to the archiepiscopal throne...
...continuing the work of Alexander Agassiz, Clark, who died at the age of 77, is credited with putting the Museum here "among the largest and best organized in the world" because of his additions to the collection of sea stars, brittle stars, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers...
Boswell: "But consider, if I am rich, I can take a number of girls; I get them with child; propagation is thus increased. I give them doweries, and I marry them off to good Peasants who are very happy to have them. Thus they become wives at the same age as would have been the case if they had remained virgins, and I, on my side, have had the benefit of enjoying a great variety of women...