Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone whose motor has broken down in the Adirondacks near Ballston Spa, N. Y., well remembers the towing car that thunders out to fetch cripples into Ballston Spa's leading garage. A sturdy, determined car of incredible age, seemingly, a car strangely difficult to classify as to make. For the wheels are obviously old Cadillac ones, about 1911 model; the radiator, an even more ancient Speedwell part. Something about the headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with...
These secrets of mechanical anatomy were revealed by the General Electric Co. one day last week after having the car on the operating table for a bit of electric welding, which proved wholly successful despite the patient's great age...
Lord Bryce wrote The Holy Roman Empire at 26, which was Ben Franklin's age when he wrote Poor Richard's Almanack. Buskin and Roosevelt were 24 when they composed, respectively, Modern Painters and The War of 1812. John Jay was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court at 44. Charles James Fox was a junior lord of admiralty, a thorn in George Ill's side, at 21. William Pitt, Britain's prime minister for 17 years, assumed office at 24, having previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. At 20, Alexander Hamilton was a leading authority on government...
...Bulgarian and Turkish students have a far clearer idea of what they want in college and the sort of an education they need than students of the same age in the United States," said Mr. F. H. Black, Hon. '15, when interviewed yesterday. Mr. Black is the newly elected president of the American Colleges in Bulgaria which are to be erected near Sofia at a cost of $500,000 next autumn...
...There are four elements in the Russian system of education. The elementary schools carry the student to the age of 15, and the professional or high schools offer four or five year courses. All Russian students between the ages of six and 19 are required to attend these schools. The next step is the technical school and the highest branch of learning is the so called 'institute' which corresponds to our graduate schoool...