Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Hirsh points out that in the past 100 years the amount of alcohol (not alcoholic beverages) consumed has gone up only .02%; more beer and less whiskey is being drunk today. But the point is that there are a lot more people around who have reached the drinking age. The modern world, Hirsh says, encourages drinking. It is a "world of acute tensions and violence, and it is from this kind of world that sick people come...
...Awkward Age. In Texarkana, Ark., James W. Kimbrell, suing his 15-year-old wife for divorce, charged that she acted like a child...
...military aviation, McFarland found, accidents decline up through the 30-34 age group; then there is a slight increase, and finally a better record after 40. In general, "increasing experience makes the pilot safer"; a 50-year-old pilot who is mentally and physically alert is "much safer" than a younger pilot of less intelligence and poorer coordination. Among transport pilots, lowest records for accidents were among the under-30 group; after 30, the rate went up. Probably, thinks McFarland, the oldsters suffer from overconfidence...
Cole's approach to landscape was typical of his day, which was also the age of William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooper. Seven years before his death in 1848, Cole explained that "American scenes are not destitute of historical and legendary associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten...
...eleven, he was hired as a special correspondent of the Altoona (Pa.) Tribune to write news reports of his Lutheran father's sermons. At 48, he capped his career by becoming dean of the Yale University Divinity School. Last week Luther Weigle announced his resignation, at the retirement age...