Word: ageing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...referring to his ham and eggs of the previous breakfast, your picture captions, your very illuminating footnotes, your kidding of correspondents who become righteously indignant over something about which you may either be right or wrong, and most particularly do I delight in your sophistry in an age when the daily papers are so shocked at every tiny incident, be it a street car off the track, just another murder, or scandal in public life. It is indeed a restful and soothing experience to approach my newsstand each week. DOUGLAS W. CHURCHILL...
...TIME, May 3). They came in behalf of "The Son of Heaven," the abdicated Emperor Henry P'u-yi, a handsome clear-skinned boy just turned 20, who ascended the throne in his nurse's arms at the age of two, and toddled down from it, an obliging six-year-old, after the Republican revolution of 1912. For Henry the petitioning delegates asked justice: fulfillment of the abdication agreement of 1912 whereby he is entitled to receive an income of $4,000,000 a year and to retain the incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded Super-Tuchun...
...Plastic Age (Clara...
Alex L. Wiener the worst drubbing of that team's career, 7-5, 6-0, 6-3. The sensation of the tournament was Warren F. Coen Jr., 14 and small for his age, who won the boys' state singles championship and played, acceptably, two exhibition sets against the champion...
...Inventor Edison referred to was Charles Albert Coffin, who founded the General Electric Co. (1892), who sold new uses for electricity, who in less than half his own lifetime helped considerably to change the character of civilization. Last week, at the age of 81, he died of pneumonia, after four years of retirement from business. By 1883, the year Charles Albert Coffin turned from his profitable manufacturing of shoes at Lynn, Mass., to the manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used...