Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This annual melancholia did not generally extend to U.S. parents. Popeyed, they watched the new styles in clothes and friends take form; only half believing, they listened as, with the fall semester, the language began its annual metamorphosis on teen-age tongues...
Buckles & Boots. Teen-age styles are also changing. Everywhere, the girls seem to be wearing hip-hugging skirts, shorter and far tighter than last year. Sloppy sweaters are on the way out, tighter ones topped with ropes of imitation pearls on the way in. Said one San Francisco high-school girl: "The word this year is meticulous...
...wintry January afternoon in 1916, the Metropolitan Opera's Enrico Caruso, Frances Alda, Antonio Scotti and Andres de Segurola bundled into a train for one of their weekly performances in Philadelphia. For the top performers in the Met's golden age it was a routine trip, but one they always made the most of. This time, the party sipped champagne...
Since that first year of the Atomic Age, methods of observing such effects have improved enormously. U.S. airplanes, patrolling the perimeter of the U.S.S.R., were equipped to collect enough radioactive dust in air filters or electrostatic precipitators to prove that an atomic cloud had risen somewhere in the interior. Ground observers in some such place as Alaska could have spotted the cloud's radioactivity by means of instruments...
...Age of Progress. In Sparks, Nev., after motorists complained of denting their fenders in downtown parking areas, the city council agreed to remove the 45-year-old hitching posts...