Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another constant lifelong bond with Harvard is, of course, one's class and every graduate should make a point of attending his class reunions as long as he lives. Many graduates find that these reunions increase in interest and enjoyment with age...
...peculiar claim to attention. The Germans are an old people, or group of peoples, but their literature is of relatively recent origin. Coming late into the general European inheritance, they have known how to profit by the experience of their neighbors no less than by their own; and envisaging age-long problems from their own point of view, they have rather given the world a variety of interpretations of life than perfected the forms of traditional art. The Germans are individualists. We Americans doubtless need a profounder sense than most of us have of the excellence of that classical tradition...
...General reached the age limit and retired in 1903, after several disagreements, with Mr. Roosevelt. Since then, it has - been the privilege of younger men at" Washington to make the General's acquaintance; and of the public to applaud him on patriotic occasions...
...Sister Therese Martin, one of the nine children of a jeweler of Alencon, a provincial town to the south of Lisieux. At the age of 16 -that was in 1889 -she decided to join the Carmelite Order, but was rejected because of her extreme youth. Taken on a visit to Rome, she threw herself at the feet of Pope Leo XIII, "the greatest of modern Popes," imploring him to sweep away the barriers which prevented her becoming...
...age of the mother did not influence the mortality rate except in the case of the first born, among whom the rate was higher when the mother was under 20 or over...