Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Reserve after qualifying. The opening of the program in the fall of 1926 will be restricted to about sixty students of the Freshman class in the College and Engineering School; these students must be citizens of the United States and must be over fourteen years of age...
Other scholars, who had labored long to establish the historicity of Jesus Christ and the Twelve Apostles, read Georg Brandes's book avidly, scoffed at the old-age gesture of a literary critic...
...true that people on shore could hear music blown over dark waters from the frail and lighted decks; niggers were fiddling there, gamblers in tall hats were playing faro, planters and belles and bankers swept down the river; they are gone. ' But who shall say that another age, because it happens to be over, is prettier than our own? The proud boats carried produce as well as gallantry; the niggers who fiddled helped, in their off moments, to carry bales aboard; and when the boats quit the river it was because a new and quicker freight had joined Chicago...
...Boulogne, with a result more than ever demonstrative of his power to finish a story off soundly. Mr. Locke is 63 now. With his novels listing more than 30, his plays half a dozen, he is perennial proof that in writing, if not in all the arts, skilled age can give raw whippersnappers a heavy handicap...
...upon the significant epithet, "awless." She called sky "an ancient scroll." She knew what was meant when her gypsy crone said: "She will never be lonely while pushing sticks into fire and watching them burn away." One evening she wrote: "The secrets of life that are discovered from age to age are as hard to find as a knife lost in rushes." She sympathized with the American colonists and aroused by George Ill's banishment of traitorous Jack Wilkes to ask: "Why is it that dogs are never hunted by weasels...