Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a time in the rude past when the cheering stranger extended his right hand to show that it concealed no treacherous dirk. The skeptic seized it to make sure. Like the doffing of helmets, this medieval precautionary measure has persisted to an age when it is usually unnecessary; the deliberate murderer nowadays shoots with his left hand quite as skilfully as with his right. And with the advance of medical science has come the knowledge that this apparently harmless custom is a dangerous spreader of disease germs. President Coolidge is doubtless acting for the health of the nation...
...belt stretching northwest to England. No traces of really ancient humans had been found in America, and the Western Hemisphere was believed to have been uninhabited by men until people from Asia, over the Bering Strait, by Mongoloid stock, ancestors of the Eskimo and Indians. Many supposedly ice-age human remains in the U. S., when closely investigated, have turned out to be comparatively recent Indians. This is true of the skeletons discovered last year on the La Brea ranch, near Santa Barbara, Calif. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Smithsonian Institution, recently punctured all discoveries hitherto as not more than...
...Prussia, which already has state certification of nurses and hospital personnel, is now requiring certification of masseurs. Candidates must be more than 20 years of age, must furnish evidence of moral character, mental and physical fitness, and six months' continuous training in a school approved by the state...
Reading is a red-brick town, an hour from London, famed for biscuit factories. Its chief health officer- Dr. Milligan-delivered a report on the weight and height of its children as compared with American juveniles. He found that Americans were greater in both dimensions. At age 12, American boys stand 56¼ inches and weigh 79 pounds. Reading boys stand 54¼, weigh...
Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett: "Addressing blind men in Light House No. 1, Manhattan, I astonished the audience by saying that I had raised a boy who had been blind from the age of 2. I revealed that my protégé had lived in Boston, attended Harvard College and Law School. At the end of the speech I ordered the bandmaster to play the colors. To curious reporters I gave no further information...