Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were born in the Islands are eligible to citizenship. Since the Islands were annexed in 1898 to the U. S. and since the Japanese were the last large immigration group to arrive in the Islands, very few Japanese of those born in Hawaii have as yet reached voting age. In 1925, for example, there were less than 2,000 registered Japanese voters. On the other hand, however, there are some 60,000 Hawaiian-born Japanese in the Islands, and as they reach voting age they will constitute a considerable portion of the Islands' voting strength. In any consideration...
...NEXT AGE OF MAN?Albert Edward Wiggam ? Bobbs-Merrill ($3). "Plainly, it is a crisis in the affairs of human beings." It is a time not far distant, according to Author Wiggam, when the two hormones which control female reproductive organs will be harnessed, put into pills, sold at corner drug stores. Thus will parents be able to determine the nature and the number of their offspring. A finer race will be bred. Evolution will become "peaceful, happy, benign...
...Careening through life with the impetus of a cannon ball, Balzac dashed into love affairs at every turn. His first two mistresses were twice his age. People of all sorts, from grocery clerks to emperors, fired his imagination to write about them. In the meantime, he loved carriages, good wine, sleek clothes, expensive food. He ran up debts of 150,000 francs and trying to extricate himself by scatter-brained schemes, increased them. His economic principle was that spending more money means the necessity for earning more money, and as his only sure way of earning more money...
...Scholars, 243 or 40% went into teaching and 161 or 26.5% went into law, In these professions they have become, with few exceptions, eminent and hence influential. Moreover, the earliest of the Scholars are now men around 45 years of age. Their eminence, their influence, may not yet be judged with anything like finality...
...Hammond, Ind., one day last week and again in Chicago, a 16-year-old girl tried out as a professional evangelist. She was Roberta Star Semple, daughter of Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson, prosperous Baptist evangelist of Los Angeles. Roberta was beginning her career at a younger age than did her mother. But she had her mother to help...