Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGraw-Hill publishes 26 magazines, mostly technical. Some are: Electrical World, Coal Age, Aviation, Power, Textile World...
Born in Dominica, West Indies, a charwoman's son, Artist Joseph was adopted by his foster-parents at the age of one. He stayed in the West Indies for eleven years. From an early age he drew, told other children what was wrong with their drawings, bought penny crayons. At eleven he was taken to Manhattan, where he attended a public grammar school. His drawing teacher encouraged him to continue at Stuyvesant High School, where Dr. Henry E. Fritz conducts special Saturday drawing classes and arranges an annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls...
...appeared the theory that city editors neglected the story simply because they were late in discovering it. Had they got the story on the day of the Texas wedding it would have front-paged every paper. But it is not in their occurrence but in their telling that events age, To a man unconscious since Nov. 10, 1918, news of the armistice would be great news. To a public unconscious of the Graustein wedding this latest and best of Cinderella stories remains fresh and green. Until it is told, no story...
...Cabinet of ten, Great Britain is governed by an unwieldy group of some 44 Cabinet ministers and ministers not of Cabinet rank. Oldest in the MacDonald Cabinet is Lord Parmoor, 76, Lord President of the Council; youngest, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 32, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; average age, 56. Of the new Cabinet, many were self-educated, born in poverty. The Prime Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer...
...listen to the learned speeches of their colleagues. Each member owns an elaborate Napoleonic costume, of tail coat, knee breeches, white-plumed cocked hat and sword. But despite all the formalities and trappings of membership, Institut de France no longer receives the respect from French artists which its age* and dignity warrant. It is frequently hinted that many members of the Institut are elected for political reasons; some of France's greatest men have never been chosen...