Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Habsburg Archdukes have this right if they satisfy all the following conditions: a) have resided five years in Hungary; b) own land in Hungary; c) speak and write Hungarian; d) are of age...
...first of What the team did or did not do to St. Timothy's last year and how he is sure the boys will duplicate or reverse last years splendid or regrettable performance. He goes on to tell the men without previous experience of Jo Zilch, who at the age of twelve was given up for dead and who at the age of twenty ran the hundred in ten seconds flat or shut out St. Timothy's or made the All American Team. He moralizes on the educational value of such effort and finally may tell the candidates that they...
...vast of energy twenty for the sake of a branch of erudition that vast field of evidence that shows what rapid strides have been made by economics in recent years. It used to be called the dusty dismal science theoretically abstruse aloof from the workaday would. In the present age when the economic is woven with or even dominates the political and social as never before it is a live alert science seeking to deal intimately with the work and the daily bread of the world. The economics courses in our universities today are crowded and the numbers of graduates...
...age has been without its risque plays. But never not even in the decadence of Restoration Comedy, have risque plays been so stupid as those which adorn New York stages today. Whether or not Mr. Ames group is successful in eliminating wholesale pornography; but if he and his associates are allowed a liberal power of suppression of dull and unamusing plays the theatre will be if not more edifying at least more inspirational. The public would gladly go without its present superabundance of sex and salaciousness if the results offered greater entertainment value...
...expression "extension courses" could mean more often educational activity untouched by vocationalism, and conducted by the greatest scholars of the age and less often courses in accounting, business principles, and home-making the university would be doing a greater service to the intelligent public than it possibly can by assuming duties properly belonging to vocational training schools...