Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange to say, politicians and political observers regard this expression as entirely sincere. They characterize him as a sweet, if not a naive old man, and many feel sure that he will be the Democratic nominee. It is suggested that at his age even the possibility that he might die in office, if elected, is an added attraction to him as a candidate, just as his lack of enemies is his present asset...
Chauncey M. Depew at the age of 90 did not go to occupy his seat in the New York delegation. It was the first Republican Convention he has missed since...
Under the law of the state in which the case is to be tried, capital punishment could be meted out to the slayers in spite of the fact that they are not of age. Although neither of the young men is 21, both of them are old enough yet seemingly not mature enough to realize the enormity of the crime they committed...
...outstanding characteristics of Yall is that it does not propose to Americanize Chine, but rather to cooperate with the Chinese in the interest of advancing education in their great country. . . . It was Washington Irxing who called prejudices the inveterate diseases of old nations, "contracted in rude and ignorant ages." We forego the advantages of our birth into an enlightened age if we do not shake off national prejudices as we would the local superstitions of the Old World. In a day when legislators only cloud the sky of international concord, this out-reaching spirit of Yale...
...have on our hands the insane and the 22% of our population who will never reach eleven years in mental age. They will all vote, and the highly intelligent, 15%, who think they know more than their leaders...