Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philadelphia has five men, Washington, five, Hampton Roads five. All men from the district must be from Boston or vicinity, and must be over 18 years of age...
...later--"Self expression is a necessity of life, even the austere and reserved Francis Bacon grants. The age of repression, at last in its grave, has been succeeded by an outburst of activity in all fields. Votes for women: colleges for women: short skirts for women: these are among the immediate results. . . Radcliffe is agog to welcome genius in literary guise...
Such a pioneer was Robert Grosseteste born in 1175 of humble parents, who was to become before the end of his long life bishop of Lincoln, the first mathematician and physicist of his age, and one of the earliest of English statesmen...
...largest† advertising agency in the world, has long had its offices in an old Philadelphia building on Chestnut St. Last week officials announced that in the spring a new housing will go up, along the west side of Washington Square, Philadelphia; a $1,000,000 monument to its age and prestige...
...against which the present will seem bright. So that he can say: "Those boys of a drab and dirty day, grown mature, have performed a miracle . . . modern civilization ... a great agricultural empire ... a rich industrial commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality over their oldtime virtues. But then he turns around to ballyhoo Progress harder than anyone and to give his contemporaries credit for planting in Modern Youth a virtue greater than ever. This is curious because it reveals in himself a refinement...