Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...measure will eventually provide disability benefits and old age pensions for approximately half the citizens of France. For this purpose an insurance fund totaling $4,000,000,000 will be gradually amassed by levying a special tax upon employers and employees which is expected to bring in $200,000,000 per year. While the fund is building up the insurance will come increasingly and proportionately into effect...
...peculiar significance of Ibsen in Norway cannot be realized unless it is remembered that he was of Danish, not Norwegian, stock and chose to pass much of his manhood and old age away from Norway on the Continent of Europe. Thus he came more readily to achieve international fame, but lost touch with Norwegians who were then flocking in rapturous admiration around a playwright-demagogue who is scarcely known outside of Norway, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, "The Old Bear...
...working towards the organization of Oxford and Cambridge as a goal when it adopts certain of their features, but will make use only of those things that seem adaptable. The same applies to the other institutions of Europe. The older universities will retain for some time the attractions of age and tradition and thereby attract a limited number of graduate students, but no longer can they hope to secure dominance in the new world by a wholesale transplantation of their methods...
...years ago the University team, considered one of the best in Harvard's debating history, arguing on the question, "Resolved, That education is the curse of the present age," defeated Yale, obtaining the unanimous vote of three judges...
...saber-tooth tiger was a common animal in North America during the Pleistocene age, but the genus is now extent. The specimen now in the Museum was found in Rancho La Brea, near Los Angeles. The region was formerly a tar pool, but is now an asphalt deposit. Animals became trapped in the tar pool when they came to eat other animals caught...