Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gandhi, who many a time has said he would live to the age of 125, said last week that he, too, might soon cease to be. Now 77, he explained: "There is no place [in a violent India] for me. I have given up hope of living for 125 years. I might last a year or two, but that is a different matter...
John Gielgud, who has played Hamlet 1,000-odd times, decided at 43 that he is now too old to act the role any more. He reasoned: "If you take 43 as Hamlet's own age, that makes his mother 60 at the very least. . . and no woman of 60 in her right mind is going to carry on around Elsinore the way that Gertrude of Denmark does...
Every week at a castle-like villa, overlooking the Elbe near Hamburg, such age-old questions are being asked as ingenuously as if they had never been asked before. The answers given are as eagerly received as if they were dazzling scientific discoveries. The questioners-young Germans brought up in Nazi paganism-find Christianity an exciting new idea...
Perhaps this time the glaciers are shrinking in earnest, looking toward an age, many million years in the future, when the earth will be warm all the way to the poles. More likely, this is only the latest "interglacial period...
...part of the administration. But the Summer Term of 1947 is not and has never been represented as an ordinary term. It is the last gasp of the war time acceleration, adapted to an unusual situation. And the student body is also of an unusual calibre. Its age and experience give it a direction and purposefulness not customary in undergraduates. It has business and social contacts more extensive than those of an ordinary college class. And because many of the men in college this summer are working for a definite goal beyond their sheepskin and because they have already acquired...