Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philip Sassoon, a handsome, immaculate Jew, has had an astounding career for a man of his age. Scion of two immensely wealthy families? the Sassoons and the Rothschilds?he is one of the richest men in England. His enemies ascribe much of his rapid advancement to his money, although all who know him have called him able...
...Dana, who was born in Lewiston, Maine, on May 25, 1881, came to Massachusetts at the age of 11, and after graduating from the College in 1904, took his LL.B. degree at the Law School in 1907. While at the University, he played on the baseball team and was business manager of the CRIMSON at the time when Franklin D. Roosevelt '03, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was president of the paper. He managed the University track team that went abroad in 1904, and, together with Yale, defeated the combined teams of Oxford and Cambridge by a score...
...Early Stone Age in Europe," Professor Tozzer, Semitic Museum...
...while in 1948 he will be too far removed from the point of view of a small gang of newsboys to reach them in any such way. Beyond his committee work and his financial aid he will feel that he is too old to help. In exceptional cases age will not interfere but the fact still remains that far more valuable material is lying dormant in undergraduates, who feel that they are tremendously, oh yes, tremendously over-loaded with work. Most of these same students would have nervous prostration after one day of their fathers' routine...
Through the wards of the General Hospital at Vienna, a tall, grey doctor proceeds. His shoulders are stooped from age and work. Behind him follow 20 to 30 other doctors. They have come from all countries to attend his clinic. Many are from the U. S., taking postgraduate work, for, although the U. S. has better laboratories than any abroad, Vienna maintains its prestige for clinical research...