Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original subject for these debates was changed a few weeks ago to "Resolved, That education is the curse of the present age." This subject was picked in accordance with the wish of the debaters of all three universities for a question with possibilities for an exercise of humor. After the debate the Coolidge prize of $100 will be awarded to that member of the debating teams who has shown the most ability in the preparations for the Triangular debates. Coach H. P. Sharp 1L. will pick the recipient of this prize...
...cried, his nursery maid, a former sutler, used to bellow at him: "Silence in the company!" When he went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's imagination with tales of how he had served as a drummer-boy under Frederick the Great. At the age of "eighteen-and-a-half" Paul had won his way through military school to lieutenantship in the Austro-Prussian War. Said he, years afterward, "I made no choice of a profession. To fight was 'the only thing to do,' 'eine Selbstverstandlichkeit...
...Alone in her dismal hotel room, with her small sona neurotic little Hohenzollern, evidencing astounding willfulness for his age-she ... is going on with the suit...
Like the Roosevelts, these huntsmen will seek an almost fabulous creature. Like Dr. Mann of the Smithsonian forces, they will try to take the creature alive as well as dead. It is an anachronism from the age of reptiles that they have in mind a lizard that is known to grow to the size of a crocodile, that is, 18 to 21 feet long; a carnivore, a night prowler, a fleet traveler on large but silent feet, which raise his snaky chest and belly clear of the ground. He is called "boeaja darat" and "land crocodile" by the Dutch...
Their bicycles were not built for two. Taut skeletons of aluminum and steel, so light that they can be lifted on a stiff forefinger, so strong that they can endure terrific smashes, their racing bicycles reveal what a strenuous age has done to an engine once fitted for leisured lovemaking and connubial perambulation. The wiry men who rode them did not all look sweet upon the seats; their faces, as they swept around the track for the first lap, presented a jumbled cinema of anxiety, hope, fear, ferocity and desperate determination. Two to a team, they relieved one another periodically...