Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maharaja of Gwalior, educated at Oxford, was the lifelong friend of Britain. He ascended the throne of Gwalior, Indian state, when but 10 years of age, reigned for 39½ years. He is succeeded by his son, George Jivaji Rao, aged...
Then come the social columns and personal mention. "George W. (Mike) Murphy was the center of a lively little party in the Gales Ferry dining room last evening. The occasion was his coming of age (21) but as Ruth Van Phul would say, 'nobody would ever guess it. The dinner was a riot of color and the odor of condensed milk could be distinctly observed...
...present controversy centering about Mr. Scopes has, therefore, hurled thoughtful society into profound discouragement and disillusion. Must all the intellectual battles of the last century be fought again? Does each age have to dig up old problems, solved long since, to add to the host of contemporary questions and feuds? Is it possible that a great mass, perhaps the majority of citizens of this so-called enlightened country in this day and age still believe in the literal interpretation of the account of creation in Genesis...
...international affairs, be their special field politics, economics, medicine, education, manners and customs, or what-not. It offers opportunity as well as experience. And no group which comes to Geneva has as fine a chance for development along these many different lines as that composing the students of college age from near...
...addition to the extra-mural interests and activities which distracted the head of the house, there came to be a special source of distraction affecting the brethren. In earlier times, in the golden age of monasteries, only those with a calling or even a genius for monastic life entered religious houses. . . . But in time men came to take up monastic life for other reasons. . . . It has been said that in the later Middle Ages men began to enter monasteries "as a profession". Thus many came to religious houses who were unsuited to the life and lowered its standards. They...