Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduated from the College of Harvard Knocks myself," he said, with a twinkle in his eyes, "I started in as a Freshman at the age of 11 and my education occupied the age of 11 and my education occupied the greater part of my life. contrary to general opinion, I did not start in to 'follow the sea" but devoted myself to the lumber business on the Pacific coast...
...higher degrees, only by amateurs, but when Bishop Ingram oversteps urbanity in his social assault upon the young persons submitted to his attention, he always has his Faith as an excuse. He has done an immense amount of good. He was appointed Lord Bishop of London at the early age of 43 upon nomination by the Crown after four years of a lesser episcopacy. Until that time he had been working in Bethnal Green, London, a slum district, full of immigrants, threaded with crooked little streets that began in Ireland and ended in Palestine; he had started the Oxford Settlement...
Frequency. "At and beyond the age of ten in the life table generation of 100,000 persons there would have occurred fifteen years ago 5,874 cancer deaths to the end of life. In 1924, among a similar group of persons at the age of ten, the total cancer toll would have been 8,652. That is to say, the probability of ultimately dying from cancer was increased 47.3 per cent. In 1910 the cancer budget in the life table generation of 100,000 females at the age of ten was 9,850. But under the conditions of 1924 that...
...what age did Mouse-Breeder Brooks's mice become bald...
Washington, D.C., knew Sutter for years, enormously fat with age, gripping the Apocalypse in his pocket, supporting a parasitic swarm of lawyers until he had to shine shoes to support himself. It knew Carpenter Marshall of New Jersey, too, whose pickaxe pried loose Sutter's hellgate; Marshall escaped from his asylum once and dug filth from Washington's guttters, screaming, "There is gold everywhere, everywhere!" One June afternoon in 1880, old Sutter sat on the steps of the Capitol, pondering Justice. Malicious newboys ran up and told him that congress had just awarded him 100 millions of indemnity...