Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mortality. Few grownups die from erysipelas alone. But the mortality of children is very great. Among infants under one year of age 75% to 90% attacked die. Among children under five years 15% to 20% die. Adult mortality...
When the teeth are on the way, as shown by dribbling, the parotid glands secrete an active saliva capable of digesting breadstuffs. Weaning should be fixed partly by the child's age, partly by the appearance of the teeth. The first come during the sixth or seventh month. From then on the number of sucklings may be reduced?in a month to twice a day. When the second pair of teeth arrive, the mother can wean the child. When the third group (the later incisors and grinders) appeal-about the end of the first year, the baby can chew solid...
...spry 65 over a career that began in the horsecar period. It brings in, with insouciant yet convincing familiarity, more famous names from all rosters of life than (perhaps) any other book ever published in the U. S. Its purpose is not to be historical, but since an age of arrogance is chronicled by one of its most superb exemplars, history is served with unwonted solicitude...
...Manhattan, in Chicago, at Denver, Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans, Quebec?similar rejoicing. Everywhere raucous youth snapped up "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" (words and music by one Jules Buffano; sponsor, an obscure San Francisco firm). Swiftly crabbed age constructed buggies and horses out of beaverboard, harness out of string, snatched wheels from baby perambulators, concocted numberless impromptu window displays. Awed jazz fanciers mentioned buggies and bananas in the same gin-whiffed breath...
...clock in Payne Hall the University debaters will meet the Yale team. This debate, which is one of the Harvard-Yale-Prinecton triangular series, marks the climax of the current season. The University will defend the negative of the question: "Resolved, That education is the curse of the present age", against the forensic art of the Eli affirmative team...