Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...age is against me and I'm nervous. Nothing serious?well, just jiminy fits, I guess...
Thus Little Emperor Alexander I continued to play, last week, the game which he was taught by that great statesman Nikola Pashitch, who was the bulwark of the present dynasty until his death at the age of 80 (TIME...
Married. Charles Elmore Cropley, 33, of Washington, D. C., youngest clerk of the United States Supreme Court, which he began to serve as page, at the age of 13; to Miss Roma Virginia Wornall, of Kansas City, Mo., in Kansas City...
...first issue under its new staff the Lampoon is fortunate in having a strong subject for its theme. The Messers. Blackburn and Company have sunk their teeth into this morsel with appetites appropriate to their journalistic age. The Reading Period is past, but the clouds have not disappeared over the horizon, and the Lampoon staff is concerned with some of the results...
Cotton Mather was born in Boston in 1663, the son of Increase Mather, one time president of the University. He took his Bachelor's Degree at the age of 15, and later became a member of the Board of Fellows. A biographical account says, "Mather's day was a continuous church service. He sang psalms, catechized servants, sang more psalms, and entertained his wife (during his life he had three) by reading religious exercises." In spite of his religious bent, Mather was an enthusiastic scientist, and years before Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, was born, he had advocated inoculation...