Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Germany, the young Leyendecker was brought to Chicago by his parents at the age of six. He attended the Art Institute where he specialized in the design of stained glass windows, later going to Paris and studying at the Academic Julien. For the last 15 years, he made his home in New Rochelle and established a reputation as an illustrator for commercial and magazine cover work. Leyendecker was much admired for his crisp, clear style. His death is a loss to the field of good commercial...
Asia. Dryopithecus, a big forest ape that lived in the Siwalik hills of India in Miocene times, before the Glacial Age, is the common ancestor of man, the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and other primates. That is the conclusion of the staff of the American Museum of Natural Hostory, after more than a year's study of three fragments of the beast's jawbone discovered for the Museum by Barnum Brown (suspicious cognomen...
...Sumerian and Babylonian languages; a bone stylus six inches long, the oldest known pen; and a solid gold earring and other jewelry from a clay coffin of the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Kish was one of the oldest Babylonian capitals, already the seat of four great dynasties before the age of Sargon...
Europe. Complete Stone Age village was laid bare near Vannes on the coast of Brittany, when a recent tidal wave swept away the sand. French archeologists are excited over the prospect of further revelations...
...yard dash at the Intercollegiates. The following year at the same meet he captured three first places, in the 100-yard, the 220-yard, and the 440-yard dashes. That year and the next six in succession Harvard won the Intercollegiates, creating what was called a "golden age". Ellery H. Clark '96, member of the track team for three years, attributed this success to the construction of a new track on Jarvis Field and to the appearance in the college of Wendell...