Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past fortnight has witnessed a series of events which would have filled the minds of college students of a generation age with worry and dismay. Within two successive Saturdays each of the so-called Big Three has suffered defeat on the football field at the hands of what that same generation would have considered inferior colleges...
Produced Play at Age of Seven...
...school children and enable her to make out a graded list of 700 books to recommend her contribution to Children's Book Week (Nov. 8-14). Telling the Illinois Library Association about it last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared: "But yet I think it is one of the worst books for boys in their mature age." Of Evangeline, said a 14-year blade of Quincy, Mass.: "It doesn't seem possible that a girl would walk so many miles...
...Lloyd-Jones, good-humored captain of the Oxford debating team that is meeting 19 U. S. college teams here this autumn, continued: "Your American universities seem to be fresh and very invigorating, with a great deal of energy and spirit but students of the same age lack the maturity which is evident at an English university. They don't take their problems seriously and seldom think constructively until after graduation...
...Navy officials, visiting last fortnight at Gloucester, Mass., were treated to a demonstration remarkable even in this radio age. In the laboratory of John Hays Hammond Jr., they beheld that young wizard (aged 37) transmit eight radio messages simultaneously upon a single ether wave and receive them again, all separate and distinct, using single sending and receiving instruments at both ends of his operation...