Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people awoke last week to the fact that there was a great social phenomenon just out of reach of their spectacles-a phenomenon ranking with coups d'état, invasions and insurrections, but more timely-adjusted to the spirit and social organism of the age: the "general strike...
...John, when roused, is not to bo trifled with. In 1917, at the age of 44, he doffed the stay-at-home security of a cabinet minister (Attorney General, 1913-15; Secretary of State for Home Affairs, 1915-16), and, hopping into a major's uniform, rushed off to serve with the British Royal Air Force in France until the War ended. His prestige is almost equally high among all parties and kinds of Britishers...
Every year Columbia University awards a prize of $1,500 (Pulitzer money) to "that art student who shall be certified as the most promising and deserving by the National Academy of Design." Last week this prize was given to Humbert R. Romano of Springfield, Mass.-age 20, born in Naples, youngest of a family of eight...
...Research Society, Ichabod Babbit, President. "Man" says Mr. Babbit, "was an incident and woman a side issue. The beginning of the world was real estate with water thrown in as a chaser." Even nature has consistently dealt in real estate values, destroying and making properties with each successive geologic age. As for man, ever since the serpent advertised the apples of Eden and Noah obtained a monopoly of the ripuarian rights on the face of the globe, no movements of consequence have omitted the real estate factor...
...followed a kindred instinct and urge. In fact economists have long recognized this urge and given it the caption, "land hunger". One may suspect that the term real estate finds company in Mr. Babbit's mind with barbarian transactions chiefly to steady the turbulence of property dealings in any age, with the sedative of tradition...