Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began his career studying medicine, a profession from which he retired in 1882 at the age of 38. He had, too, been brought up in what is called the "old school": he went to Eton with half the Victorian aristocracy and then to Oxford with the other half. In other words, he "belonged"-a saying that implies equality within the hallowed circle of the blue blooded...
...bone. He was immediately driven to the hospital, where he was able to walk to the operating room. His face suffered minor cuts from the splintered glass. His condition was said to be satisfactory, but the Athenians worried over him fearing that the shock would be more than his age could stand...
...game, 4 to 0, and lost the next year by the same score. A 28 to 0 victory in 1886 started the Crimson off on a series of five triumphs by lopsided counts, until the Quakers won by 18 to 4 in 1894, and ushered in. The Golden Age of Pennsylvania football...
...journalistic discussion, the insouciance of the younger generation, finds new illustration on Massachusetts Avenue. With new construction work rising in the Square it is not too much to say that the lives of Harvard classes yet unborn are in the hands of the Elevated's engineers. In an age of more than one kind of acceleration the names of the quick of yesterday are often to be found in the columns of the dead of to-day. It is to be hoped that the rebuilt mausoleum rising from the paying will provide no excuse for the classical...
...Author. Martha Ostenso was born in Norway, brought to Winnipeg at the age of 3, to Brooklyn at 20, when she began writing. A little known book of verse, the prize-winning Wild Geese and The Dark Dawn are her last five years' productions. She lives and writes now, secluded in an old house on the New Jersey Palisades, makes yearly pilgrimages to Minnesota for family reunions and for material...