Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furnishing the country with currency. Working at capacity the Bureau of Printing and Engraving has hardly been able to keep up with the demand for fresh dollar bills as those in use wear out. It has been obliged to put "fresh" bills into circulation without allowing them to age and toughen. The result is that they have worn out even more rapidly. Other factors, the handling of paper money by garage men with greasy hands, etc., have contributed toward making the life of dollar bills shorter and shorter, until now the bills wear out on an average in less than...
...fixed in a thick pitch- like substance, impervious to X-rays, could not be extracted from the coffin. Medical experts also reported that a form of spontaneous combustion had destroyed the bandages and rendered the skin and underlying tissues brittle. It was, however, established that the King's age was on the baby-side...
...week they circulated a petition to put him on the Republican primary ballot as candidate for Congressman-at-large. If nominated next April he might be elected next November, and in December, 1927, when the next Congress will probably meet, he would be only six months under the minimum age for Congressmen (25 years...
...poet that ever lived delighted in amassing such curious, half-forgotten sounds; not even Francis Thompson had so great a vocabulary of rare and archaic terms. . . . The explanation here is simpler. Nathalia collects words the way a boy of her age collects postage stamps; she had thumbed Noah Webster's work (in various editions) and made a glossary of her own. The dictionary is her playbox and she knows exactly where every odd toy is concealed...
...days for his great booming punts and accurate drop-kicks, and Major Charles Daly, present University backfield coach, battled Yale to two scoreless ties and divided the rest of the games evenly. Five lean years followed with successive Yale victories until Haughton returned as head coach. Then the golden age of Harvard football flourished until the period of the world war. Harvard seems to have viewed its good fortune with an excess of caution; for, at the beginning of the 1914 season, the Alumni Bulletin felt quite gloomy over the fact that only Mahan, Brickley, Hardwick and Pennock could...