Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Major General Robert Lee Bullard last week quitted his post as Commander of the Second Corps Area with headquarters at Governor's Island, N. Y.-retired at the age of 64. General Bullard was the commander of the famed First Division in France. He is the last of what was called the "Big Four" to be retired for age. The other three are Major General Jaine G. Harbord (now President of the Radio Corporation of America), Major General Hunter Liggett and General J. J. Pershing...
...grim figure of the Public Prosecutor Krylenco arose to demand the life of the prisoner. This demand was quickly granted, but, out of consideration for the advanced age of the "revolutionary traitor" the death sentence was commuted to ten years' penal servitude...
Before the class Professor Conant took a copy of the CRIMSON and a copy of a daily Boston paper. Upon each he poured a solution of analine-hydrochloride, which has the same effect as age upon paper. The Boston sheet turned yellow, but the CRIMSON retained its original white lustre. "In 25 years", said Professor Conant, "an average newspaper will turn yellow, but the CRIMSON will not because the University daily is made of chemical pulp while the average newspaper is manufactured of cheap mechanical pulp...
...continuation of this course under the principles which have distinguished its beginning, with better facilities, with a thoroughly representative and brilliant group of speakers is an answer to the critics of Harvard's religious attitude. It is an answer which fits the temper of the age and the spirit of the University. The P. B. H.'s course on religion should become as much an institution as Freshman Hygienc or History...
Significance. Nurmi is 27 -an age at which few runners can race any more, at which none has ever broken records. Nurmi broke two. More than this, he defeated Ray and Ritola - his most potent rivals. More than this, he caused it to appear as if these men - both, beyond a doubt, among the world's swiftest runners - were novices and that he alone ran as a good runner should. Thus did this thin blond Finn alter, for those who watched, the standard by which they had been used to measure the speed of human legs...