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Word: ageing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the government govern and the people be free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jun. 9, 1924 | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...show the extent of the danger. There are often fisted columns of names, as though after a serious accident, of those subjected to such addresses. The number alone is impressive; but when one considers that each, through kindness or a sense of duty, exposed a mind ordinarily at that age plastic and at that time unusually impressionable the possibilities are alarming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DANGEROUS AGE | 6/7/1924 | See Source »

...other hand the salaries are larger in these, ranging from $5000 to $7000 or $7500 for professorships, with varying degrees of approach to these figures for the intermediate grades of assistant and associate professorships. Rarely does a man secure a professorship in such larger institutions before the age of forty. In smaller institutions advance is likely to be earlier, but salaries are lower--counterbalanced, however, by lower cost of living...

Author: By Roswell P. Angier ., | Title: TEACHERS NEED URGE OF PUBLIC SERVICE | 6/6/1924 | See Source »

...unprejudiced observer wishes nothing but success to Miss Crane, and to any others of a like age who are planning an early career of letters; but it is only right, though possibly unkind, to point out the ominous fact that most early-blossoming geniuses come to a swift and untimely end. The field of music contains the few exceptions. The annals of neo-literature are crowded with the names and obituaries of those whose divine flame turned out to be a flash in the pan. Miss Crane should consider the sad case of Daisy Ashford, and lose no time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANGEROUS PRECOSITY | 6/5/1924 | See Source »

...Baker is not a college graduate himself but his son, George Fisher Baker Jr. '99, will celebrate his twenty-fifth anniversary at the Harvard commencement this month. Mr. Baker, senior, was born in Troy, New York, in 1840 and at a young age rapidly rose to a place of prominence in the New York financial world, soon becoming president of the First National Bank, a position now held by his son. He also has been a director of over a dozen of the country's leading railroads. He has been a patron of the fine arts and in 1916 presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Fisher Baker Gives Five Million to University | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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