Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pocket veto" (failure to act on a bill ten days after receiving it, Congress having ad-journed), the President killed a bill to increase the pensions of Civil War widows, over 75 years of age, from $30 to $40 a month...
Last week, the League of Women Voters of New York State made statements: 345,000 girls in the U. S. have become brides and mothers at the age of 15 or less; they have married men whose ages varied between 16 and 52. Poor parents, the League charged, get around the compulsory education laws and get their daughters to help earn their board and keep, by consenting to their marriage at 14 or 15. Now the League seeks the enactment of a law that will raise the legal age at which girls may be married with the parental blessing from...
...debate last year against Yale on the subject. "Resolved: That education is the curse of the present age", was won by, Harvard by the unanimous vote of the judges. Two years ago Yale proved victorious over both Harvard and Princeton...
...age of steel and speed, all that may be very fine, but the past history of Harvard has certainly seen more romantic, more interesting, though perhaps less convenient, means of getting to Boston town...
...Age-Herald, circulation now 39,256 is Birmingham's only morning paper. There are an evening News (79,803) and a Scripps-Howard Post...