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Word: ageing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Age 25-shot in the stomach at the battle of Chancellorsville, a most bloody engagement, by a man who years later was glad the bullet had missed his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Early to War | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...Age 26-commissioned Major General of Volunteers after having fought with the Army of the Potomac in every battle except one. (The Chancellorsville bullet kept him away from Gettysburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Early to War | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...meet, has suffered two defeats this season at the hands of the Harvard 1928 and Yale 1928 teams. Exeter has the confidence gained from two victories to bolster up a team depleted by concessions to the needs of baseball and by the ineligibility of two stars who are over age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK STARS FROM 38 SCHOOLS GATHER FOR HARVARD INTERSCHOLASTICS TODAY | 5/23/1925 | See Source »

...Lowell has realized that it is not bricks and mortar that make a university but the high character of the teaching staff, and he has sought out and secured for the University outstanding men in most directions of teaching and research so that the depletion of the ranks by age and retirements has been made good and the standing of the University has been improved by his selections...

Author: By "w. CAMERON Forbes .", | Title: ACHIEVEMENTS OF LOWELL OUTLINED | 5/22/1925 | See Source »

...ever a man were persecuted in an enlightened age of justice, Senator Wheeler is that man. When the leader of the Senate probe of the alleged corruption of the Department of Justice was first named in a federal indictment in his home state, it seemed outrageously patent to most people that the district attorney was not serving the simple ends of justice but following the dictates of a higher authority, seeking revenge. The Borah investigating committee cleared Senator Wheeler of the charges against him, but such an acquittal did not satisfy this higher power. The persecution continued,--this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXECUTIVE PERSECUTION | 5/20/1925 | See Source »

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