Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...age of miracles is definitely past and with it has gone the prestige of the wonder worker. On the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, four Indians, doubtless bona fide medicine men of the ancient type, failed to cure a cross-eyed...
...from the military prison where he was confined, and was told by Lieut. Col. Fredico Zenteno that he was condemned to suffer death, and would be executed at once. On taking his pedigree, Torres said, with serenity and calmness, that he was a native of Saltillo, 37 year of age, unmarried and a farmer by occupation...
...Laboratories. During the War A.E.F. medical officers esteemed highly the efficacious serums of this bureau and traveled miles to get them from supply depots. Dr. Park has characterized pneumonia as "probably about the worst disease we have left to conquer, aside from those which attack adults of comparatively advanced age. Pneumonia now kills more persons every year than tuberculosis. [The last thorough data (1923) gives the U. S. pneumonia death rate as 109 per 100,000 of population.] Human beings are liable to it at practically every age and in practically every climate...
...size, suddenness and secrecy of this corporation's advent, were passages of two clauses buried in the application. The corporation sought the right "to perform any act permitted by the law to the end that . . . every child may enjoy the right to be born well, reach school age well, and be fit mentally and physically for American citizenship"; and the power "to set aside out of surplus and not profits ..." funds to carry out the ideals expressed above. These funds might be used in "building hospitals, recreation grounds, and helping established child welfare organizations." In other words since "surplus...
...infancy of the Age of Advertising was a day of great phrases. Lately advertisers and their copywriters have grown more subtle and sophisticated. About two years ago the Procter and Gamble Co. introduced, in the white-space areas of their Ivory Soap displays, the piquant ménage of a family called Jollyco, whose members soon became as well known and beloved as the great funny folk?the Gumps, the Katzenjammers, Barney Google and that young patriarch of the comic sheets, Little Nemo...