Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cynicus" as the cynical gentleman rather proudly calls himself--quotes some statistics which he seems to consider very discreditable to Harvard. It happens that "thirty years age, the graduating class of Harvard consisted of 451 men and no fewer than ninety-seven of those unresponsive persons have remained unmarried," a fact which is enough in itself to suggest that there should be professors of match making as of fiction at a well-equipped university like Harvard. Actually, of course, match making can be learned by radio, or from correspondence schools or at any co-educational institution,--it seems hardly necessary...
...over to Brookline, fashionable Boston suburb. He paid a call on one Mrs. Guild. It was her 97th birthday. She was his sister. Mary was her name. Both Charles and Mary were children of Samuel Eliot, Congressman, Treasurer of Harvard, Mayor of Boston, who died in 1862 at the age...
...prove the success of his treatment of rejuvenation. His report is based on the cases of 70 New York women whom he has treated. No complete restoration of beauty is promised by Dr. Benjamin, but rather a revival of mental and nervous vitality. Forty-five is considered the age at which women should attempt to regain their lost youth...
...consolidation occurs the senior members of each are retained. The Herald has in its composing room the senior members from the old Herald, the Sun, the Press. The Tribune's compositors are not young. The compositors of the Herald-Tribune will perforce be venerable if not hoary with age...
...look at all these monuments again, thinking always what they represent, what has gone on within their walls. Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720, is quaintly beautiful for its simplicity and age. Visualize the Continental soldiers marching in and out when the hall was a barracks during the Revolution. Few know that Hollis was a strong Baptist and that his gift of Hollis Hall to a Congregational University was an act of great toleration...