Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When, in the course of human events, one age yields to the next, distance lends enchantment to bygone scenery. Andrew J. Volstead is no longer a contemporary symbol. He belongs to the past...
...paid for by contributions from employers and employes. It provides that all persons not in pensioned service and not earning more than £250 per annum, including all persons at present insured under the National Health Insurance Act, are to receive a weekly pension after reaching the age of 65 without reference to their private means. The same bill provides that in the event of the death at any time of an insured, married man, his widow and children are to receive weekly pensions: widow 10 s. per week for life or until remarriage; eldest child 5 s. per week...
...that he urgently needs a change in the manner of his life and being put under the constant supervision of a doctor, the king has indicated under the royal family law a place of permanent residence for Prince George and appointed a special doctor." Prince George, 37 years of age, is the eldest son of the late King Peter and renounced his rights to the throne in 1909. His extraordinary behavior, manifested in a supreme disregard for social etiquette, won for him the sobriquet of "the hotspur of Europe," and the conviction that he was mad. On one occasion...
...faith of the age is in congresses and mass action. Last week, the National Parent-Teacher Assocition mobilized in Austin, Tex., for its 29th annual congress. Mrs. Drury W. Cooper of Montclair, N. J., national chairman of membership, reported that the Association's roll had reached 875,000. She presented the Louisiana delegation with a banner for increasing its membership 274% in the past year...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY CREW Pos.Name Residence School Wt. Age Ht. B. S. B. Kelley, Reading Exeter 160 22 5.11 1/2 2. R. W. Ladd, Milton Milton 180 21 6.3 3. G. Platt, New York, N. Y. St. Mark's 180 19 6. 4. C. F. Darlington, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. St. Mark's 180 20 6.3 1/2 5. G. R. Johnson, Chicago, Ill. Chicago Latin 185 21 6.4 6. J. P. Hubhard, Milton Milton 180 21 6.2 7. K. Leavitt, Hartsdale, N. Y. Milton 176 21 6.3 S. R. Winthrop, Boston St. Mark...