Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your reporting has been getting poorer & poorer. ... I refer, in particular, to the article captioned "Texas Comes of Age" in your April 7 issue...
...fretwork along the eaves, lace curtains and begonias and geraniums in the windows. The houses and. roads had the same unpainted, unpaved frontier look. The trim wooden fences could have done with Tom Sawyer's or any other system of whitewashing. A lad of about Tom's age came past, dragging his feet on his way to school the way Tom did. He had a 2-ft. birch whittling stick, from which his shiny-bladed penknife was 'making shavings fly first at one end and then at the other; he was a real Stakhanovite among whittlers...
Lllibet, Heiress Presumptive to the British Throne, came of age. Twenty-one guns in Capetown (where the Royal Family is visiting) boomed the event...
Without attempting to minimize the Bomb, Dr. Conant believes that science itself holds the answer. "If ... we think of the potential power of destruction of the atomic bomb as the price we pay for health and comfort and aids to learning in this scientific age, we can perhaps more coolly face the task of making the best of an inevitable bargain, however hard. . . . We can begin to walk boldly along the tightrope of the atomic age...
...students are freshmen, ranging in age from 20 to 38. They have two years to prove themselves capable of regular university work, but may be transferred (with full credit) to Brown at the end of any semester. One-third of the original enrollment has already earned the right to make the jump...