Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken a great interest in the ailments of animals, which eventually led to interest in human ailments. At the age of 20 he left the farm, began to travel, peddling pills of his own manufacture as he went. Sales grew fast as his fame spread to the four corners of the earth...
George Gershwin, 27, was born in Brooklyn. At an early age, he contributed to the music of a rickety, rollicking, tenement street, at first with infantile muling, later with a stout, pubescent chirrup. He skinned his knees in the gutters of this street; he nourished himself smearily with its bananas; he broke its dirty windows and eluded its brass-and-blue clothed curator. When he was 13, his mother purchased a piano...
...COLLEGE OR AGE PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY 28 Helen H. Taft* Bryn Mawr...
...this list there should certainly have been added the name of Cloyd H. Marvin, stocky, dynamic onetime aviator, who undertook the presidency of the University of Arizona three years ago at the age of 33. † Dr. Henry Merritt Wriston, History Professor of Wesleyan University, also qualifies; a fortnight ago, the day before his 36th birthday, he was elected President of Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis.). Also Dr. Charles C. Mierow, 42, from...
...average age of doctors in the U. S. is 52. As death comes to all men, so it will come at last to these, and then there will be very few to take their places. So, last week, declared Dr. William Allen Pusey, onetime (1923-24) President of the American Medical Association, in a pamphlet published by the Association. He gave his reasons-the expense and difficulty of a modern medical education makes it impossible for poor men to become doctors. Said he: "The minimum requirements 25 years ago were that the student should be 21 years old, have attended...