Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student in the proper path and to hold him up to his modern language requirement. The final examinations, most of three hours, on English political history, English constitutional history, a period of general history since 285, political science, economic history, and a minute special field, such as the Age of Hildebrand. There is also a viva voce examination held in public before a board of examiners. In addition to these university examinations almost all colleges have their own examinations, or "collections", at fairly frequent intervals, designed to keep their undergraduates to the mark or to serve as dress rehearsals...
...Connell-Ginsberg Antiquarian Expedition to Rome has brought back a manuscript of great importance to scholars and rubbish mongers. It is none other than an ancient Hearstissimus newspaper, yellow with age and other contributing causes. From its pages is taken the following contemporary is taken the following contemporary account of the combat between Aeneas and Turnus, which proves that Virgil garbled the facts in Book XII of the "Aeneid...
...cocktails and tea. This man and woman are not idly and stupidly rebellious, but they are part and parcel of the world in which they live, trying as any sane person must, to find common sense in the current confusion of ideas and the steel clatter of the machine age. They go out into the world at the very hour of the funeral of the girl's mother; after a few years of married life, the girl, freer and less muddle-headed than the man, realizes that she must fight her own battles alone. An exciting train wreck points...
Deaths of persons under one year of age decreased in the entire registration area from...
...admiration in New York. He ran for Governor of that state in 1912 on the Republican ticket when the party was split, and he had no chance of victory. He took his defeat philosophically, humorously. In 1922, he married for the first time. On Feb. 22, last, at the age of 62, he died of angina pectoris...