Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Planetary Thinkers." The graduating class at Stanford University heard Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times utter the following: "Your president, Dr. Wilbur,* and your most distinguished graduate, Herbert Hoover . . . are the foremost planetary thinkers of this new age...
...Cluverius of the U.S.S. West Virginia and Captain Albert Ware Marshall of the aircraft-carrier Lexington were the first three additions to the rear-admiral list, of which the authorized number is 54. Three vacancies awaited their immediate promotion. In August, when Rear-Admiral Edward W. Eberle retires for age, his place will be filled by Captain Harry Ervin Yarnell, now commanding the other new aircraft-carrier U.S.S. Saratoga. Then comes Captain Arthur J. Hepburn, Chief of Staff of the Pacific battleship division. For Captain Hepburn, the added braid, honor and pay will not necessarily mean a change of assignment...
...dream and its end. The dream: a perpetual honeymoon with her fisherman-guide husband on the yacht Kaimiloa, cruising in Southern seas. Medford Kellum had served all his life as a seaman, had guided the Lauders on Florida fishing trips. In 1909 he married Elizabeth Lauder, half his age; from 1920 to 1923 he made a fortune in Miami real estate; in 1924 the couple sailed in quest of eternal happiness. Its end: the Reno (Nev.) divorce courts...
Except for the wit of his gymnastics, his was not an usual case of arthritis. Doctors know very little about the disease. Yet the Romans suffered from it, by the knobby bones of their skeletons, and the Greeks, the Egyptians, even the Stone Age men who lived in French caves...
Died. Mrs. Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst, 69, organizer in 1903 of the Woman's Social & Political Union, leader of window smashing, Cabinet-heckling British Suffragists, often jailed, always released after hunger striking; two days after the House of Lords had approved the bill lowering the age limit for women voters from 31 to 21; in London...