Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hungarian soil if he cciuld be caught. 2) 1918-19-Successively interned in various Hungarian chateaux, usually with a French guard, which thwarted his numerous attempts to escape. 3) 1919-Permitted to return to Germany by the Supreme War Council of the Peace Conference, "on account of his advanced age." (He was then 70.) 4) 1920-Appeared in the Allies list of "War Criminals". 5) 1920-25-Inveterate Monarchist protagonist. On the 10th anniversary of the War, delivered a fiery oration in which he stood forth as a confirmed militarist...
...sisters were four-Margaretta, Kate, Maria, Leah-of whom the first two were famed, beginning with Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first...
...married Miss Margaret Ross whom he met overseas when she was a Red Cross Nurse. Their daughter, age 3, is Peggy...
Professor Horace Lamb, the Association's 75-year old President, a Cambridge mathematics man of great note, put matters in motion with a resume of the modern description of Earth's age and structure. Age?"definitely between one and 10 billion years" as estimated by timing the decomposition of uranium and other radioactive elements. Structure?a hades-hot metallic core, rigid as steel; then an envelope of viscous material, kept fluid by enormous pressure, not heat conducting, having faint tides, upon which the earth's ,crust "floats". The elasticity of the envelope which is 60 miles beneath the crust...
...like Dr. Vaughan who educates the more fortunate section of the population, contemplates with equanimity the ignorance of the rest of the country and speaks glibly of its happiness. The plowman may be happier than the clerk, but his. wages are miserably small and his prospects of comfortable old age are remote." A colleague gave support: "There are unhappy, miserable men among the members of the British Association...