Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...million population. Total deafness, however, is rare. Even among these unfortunate mutes, from 15 to 20% have a useful amount of hearing. Affliction of the ear, found in innumerable forms and degrees, is commonly caused by scarlet fever, measles, tooth-cutting, catarrh, loud noises, old age. There have been occasional cases of apparent total deafness, arising from an unknown cause, which disappeared after a few years in a manner equally mysterious...
George Sisler, aged 32, baseman and manager of the St. Louis Browns, graduate of the University of Michigan. Suave, courteous, assured, imperially slim, his genius for baseball was observed as early as 1913 by Barney Dreyfus, astute owner of the Pittsburgh club, who put him under contract before he had come of age. Sisler's father repudiated the contract. St. Louis bid for him. Mr. Dreyfus would not give him up. The controversy, a sensational one, was referred to the National Commission, which finally awarded Sisler to St. Louis. Pittsburgh never forgave...
...because he had caught some glimpse of that chaste, magnificent and lonely shape whose massive sandal was set, long ago, upon the hills of Greece, but who has since confined her excursions to the rhetoric of tuppenny writers, the prudent thought more gently of Sculptor Nadelman, of this age of drollery, as they left the gallery of Messrs. Scott and Fowles...
...Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a choir of twelve women sang Nearer, My God, to Thee at an honorary memorial service for Fanny Crosby, hymn writer. The youngest of these women was Mrs. Emma Ankeny, 74; the oldest Mrs. Mary Burke, 92; average age of the twelve...
...like to call attention to the internal machines that have been placed in Widener. Emerson and other places for the purpose of drying one's hands. The first time I saw one I was distinctly impressed. Shining with porcelain and polished nickel they seemed the incarnation of this hygienic age. Expecting a scientific miracle, I pushed the pedal, spread out my dripping pans and awaited results. A low, dismal groan arose and a ghastly breeze numbed my fingers. I thought of Hamlet's father and my hands shook clumsily as though covered with gore. After three minutes intercourse with...