Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plenty of big men to take his place. As a matter of fact, if Coolidge flew with Lindbergh and they crashed, the loss of Lindbergh would dwarf the loss of Coolidge. On the other hand, the spectacle of our leader joining in on the greatest enterprise of the age (Conquering the Air) would exalt this country far more than anything else Mr. Coolidge could do. If he died, he would die a real hero and never be forgotten...
...solace of many a dowager at Paris is the ubiquitous gigolo, a male who lurks in smart dancing places and is ready, for a modest tip, to offer gallantries to ladies whose age or ugliness induces them to buy what others can command...
...army is kept closely in touch with the workers through a system of 'patron age'; a factory will 'adopt' a regiment; a regiment, on the other hand, will 'adopt' a village. . . . The Red Army, more than any other in the world, is aiming toward the goal of a volunteer militia, in which the entire nation will participate. ... In Russian factories the workers are organized in[military training] units . . . and already they are partially outfitted with the most modern 6.5 millimeter repeaters. . . . Men in a textile factory can be turned in three minutes into...
...age so devoled to efficiency as the present one, experimentation on der the auspices of Doctors Hill and that most fundamental machine of all, the human body, is becoming of increasing importance. Harvard has not lacked representatives in this new field of research. Earlier this year C. P. Yaglou of the Medical School conducted exhaustive experiments into the effects of temperature on human effectiveness. Another research is now going on under the auspices of Dictors Hill and Henderson of the Medical School and School of Public Health for the purpose of discovering the reactions of the bodily processes to various...
...feet in length. They developed a true fish shape, together with front and hind paddles, and some of them had a fish-shaped tail and dorsal fin. Their jaws were long and armed with many sharp-pointed, conical teeth. So numerous were these animals that in the Mesozoic Age they ruled the sea, and even the sharks had difficulty competing with them...