Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembers most vividly the agony of the Great Depression, as well as the years of stupidity which preceded it, your March 11 review of The Age of Roosevelt was most interesting. Who wrote it? Herbert Hoover...
...what at first seems blissful naivete, but the dependable simplicity and expectability of nearly everything soon becomes a pleasant, quiet part of Wee Geordie's world. Geordie is painfully tiny as a bright young lad. He enrolls in Mr. Samson's Home Bodybuilding Course. When next seen, at the age of twenty-one, he is a well-built tower, about six and one-half feet high. He wins the hammer throw in the Olympics, and then promptly renounces athletics to return to his highland lass, and to resume the idyllic life as the Laird's head gamekeeper, in the glen...
...human spirit to create sheer ugliness have never, unhappily, been easily checked, and the desecration of landscapes with one sort of architectural horror or another has always been a favorite field for release of these energies. Naturally enough, this skill has reached its apex in Our Modern Age with one wondrous achievement: the housing development...
Born in 1894 near Naples, Fraina was selling newspapers on Manhattan's Bowery at the age of six; he was a professional Socialist organizer at 15, at 20 a veteran "theoretician." On Sept. 1, 1919 the first convention of the Communist Party of America, in a little building in Chicago called "Smolny" (after the first GHQ of the Russian Soviets), elected Fraina its first International Secretary. He echoed Lenin's words-the new party must be a party of action. Yet within three years Fraina was out of the C.P.. was later hounded by false charges...
...students over the age of 18 and in "normal good health" may give blood; but those who are under 21 must have their parents' permission. Donors are accepted only after their medical record has been reviewed, and after they have passed a "brief and pertinent" physical examination...