Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General John J. Pershing, General of the Armies, having this day reached the age ot 64 years, is retired from active service in conformity with a requirement of an act ot Congress approved June...
President Tsao Kun, Tuchun of Chihli, all of which is now over-lorded by Wu, is one of the Chinese wonders. Bordering upon 60 years of age, most of his career was necessarily made during the Manchu regime. It was, and still is, considered a marvel that Tsao, once a lowly coolie, should have risen to the power and riches (he is said to be worth about $40,000,000) that...
Died. Rabbi Solomon Milles, 107, in Chicago, of old age. His surviving children number 8 out of 18. He was "Chicago's oldest citizen...
...Manhattan, where last year there was a seat shortage affecting 14% of the school population, this year there were reported to be no ac commodations for 28% of the children of school age and this in spite of a score of new buildings. Little excuse for Mayor Hylan and his School Board was found by critics in the fact that Manhattan has a shifting population. Five years ago, the excuse, legitimate enough, was that the Government's wartime embargo on schoolhouse construction had just been lifted...
Upon library tables and newsstands appeared The Living Age for Sept. 6, a very different looking magazine from all its little brown predecessors. It was fatter, having 80 pages to their 48. Its cover was smooth stock, white with a brown border. A subtitle ran: "Monthly Edition...