Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this age of scientific enlightenment, fields that to the tyro are virtually unknown possess an importance which is seldom appreciated. Although the cause of climatology to which Professor R. DeC. Ward's Milton Fund grant is to be devoted is little known to the public, it has a constantly growing significance to the layman as well as to the scientist. Physicians, geologists, geographers, botanists, and zoologists all these use elimatology in their specialized fields and pave the way for its comprehensive use by the layman in his daily life...
George Arliss with subdued strength plays Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" this week at the Plymouth. He has throttled down the weeping and wildly gesticulating Shylocks to his own restrained taste. Moderation is born of the knowledge that orating Shylocks have long lain in the alley, that age's resignation to evil is in Shylock's limbs, and that this play is leaving the category of the one-part show. When Lorenzo has flown with Jessica and the old man knocks at the door of his house, there is no crescendo from wonder to premonition to fear to sorrow...
...age which some people call ''elderly," and I put on glasses when I read TIME. Nonetheless I am no coward, and will not decline the challenge of Subscribess Catherine M. Whitsitt who writes to you (TIME, April 30) that she wants to give me "a poke in the nose," because I suggested to you (TIME, April 9) that President Calvin Coolidge ought to make a flight with Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...economist and attorney at law. Since the first day I read a copy of TIME about a year ago, I have been intending to write about it. For a busy man, interested to some extent in everything, it is the best publication of this age...
...Luis Rey, a best-selling book about people in Peru, and a book of which first edition copies have sold at $50, was interviewed by a young reporter. He said: ". . . Collecting first editions is not a good habit to get into. It is a minor indication of an age that is losing the essential approach to books. ... I have never set foot in Peru...