Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution. The strike is essentially a human protest against the ruthlessness of economic law. The English coal industry is suffering from that anathema of Thomas Carlyle, "overproduction". More capital is invested, more men are employed in coal mining than can possibly be supported on its profits. And in this age of specialization, the transfer of either capital or labor to another occupation requires time and initiative precluding the possibility of a quick readjustment Quite the brightest spot in the whole situation is the unobtrusive announcement that the British birthrate has dropped toward the French level. If continued, this decline offers...
...notis. We have ast the club men and they are coming but what we want is not them but the ayleet who really pays for there fun and don't comeplane. If you will do this we will keep away from lampoon dances and try to act are age. your-s in hope...
...Philosophy (TIME, April 5, p. 22) you say, "The formal host of the Congress is the American Philosophical Society." You have made a pardonable confusion between the American Philosophical Society and the American Philosophical Association. The former was founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1744. In that age, a "philosophical" society was one devoted to all the special sciences, including the mathematical, the physical and the biological. The Society founded by Franklin still covers this wide field, and still meets in Philadelphia. The American Philosophical Association, on the other hand, is our national organization of philosophers in the sense...
...Democratic voices, the voices of Nestors who recall the glorious battles of the golden age of politics, bellow the roster of their captains: "Robinson of Arkansas! Would you be President by sleeping the moon away in the quiet of your barracks? Walsh of Montana! Why are your battle cries so feeble?" And then their cries turn into lamentations which no echo answers...
...constitutional guardian I Of pretty young Wards in Chancery, All very agreeable girls?and none Are over the age of twenty...