Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in a while the long arm of the law reaches to hold up a slipping brassiere or a dropping G-string, and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded age fall away...
Officials think the rise may be due to 1) a slackening in immunization, 2) an increase in vulnerability among young adults (many recent diphtheria deaths have been among returning G.I.s). By Army figures, about half of those in the 19-to-30 age group are susceptible. Their immunization is a problem because diphtheria inoculations often make grownups seriously...
...country is in the hands of a small bunch of millionaires who are the heads of capitalist industrial trusts-steel, oil, copper, etc. The millionaires lead luxurious lives and sweat the workers as hard as they can. A working day lasts nine to ten hours. ... At the age of 45 a worker loses his health and becomes...
...Tomorrow to the next had been a continuing problem. There was, for example, the matter of the ascending spiral which curls across each month's cover. It was one of Mrs. Garrett's pet ideas. She also uses it to adorn the books of the Creative Age Press, a profitable publishing firm she owns. On this month's Tomorrow cover the spiral-which to her signifies the universal urge of beanstalks, nebulae and people to strive onward & upward-was all but invisible. John Richmond, the editor who diminished it, is now gone; next month the spiral (called...
Most books of this sort pass lightly over prehistoric times, deal rather with nations, kings and priests, beginning in the "dawn of history" and winding up in the age of the flush toilet. Stewart covers the same territory, but with an eye for different things...