Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backing for a bill which would lower the Massachusetts voting age to 18, and endorsement of state college conversion proposals are already planned by H.L.U. hierarchy. The group will also campaign against alleged racial discrimination on the part of college entrance authorities...
Major Clark decided on a different way of becoming a career officer. He resigned and got an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy-which had extended the entrance age from 22 to 24 for veterans of World War II. Last week, in West Point greys, ex-Major Clark was studying hard in the hope of emerging in 1950 as a shiny new second lieutenant...
...just how old the wond'ina paintings are, but they date far back into Australia's Stone Age, which lasted until the white man arrived...
...Palestinian digger is bearded Dominican Father Roland de Vaux (described by a colleague as "rather a dandy for a Dominican"). At Tell el-Farah, near Nablus in central Palestine, he found a likely spot, staked out a 40-acre claim. On the surface were iron age remains, rather recent for the Holy Land. Below, the bronze age began. Father de Vaux believes that he may prove his city to be ancient Tirzah, first capital of the secessionist Kingdom of Israel, which Jeroboam split off from Judah after the death of Solomon about...
...innocent values which he conceived to be "true blue American." In Alice Adams he matched his gifts against new and younger writers who questioned those values. Winesburg, Ohio, had been published in 1919; Main Street had been published in 1920, so had This Side of Paradise. The jazz age-which was also a self-critical and troubled age-had begun. But Booth Tarkington was 51. After his young success with costume romance (Monsieur Beaucaire) and carefree playwriting abroad with Harry Leon Wilson (The Man from Home), he had gone back to Indiana in 1911, there to come to his prime...