Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this group. Mr. Pinchot is the younger brother of Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed Governor. He is a lawyer and publicist; served in the 1st Volunteer Cavalry at Porto Rico during the Spanish-American War. He is also something of an amateur squash player; though 50 years of age, he can administer severe drubbings to men of half his years...
Reginald is a tall, angular man with a long student face and a type of bald head which seems to be the common affliction of able bankers. He is 60 years of age and for about 40 of those years he has devoted himself entirely to higher mathematics, law, and the study of finance. In "the City" (London's Wall Street section), Mr. McKenna is Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, one of the greatest British banks. But he is more than this; he is looked upon as one of the greatest authorities on budgetary finance...
...does not arise entirely from his lack of genius, but rather from his failure to present the true tradition of his sire. It was supposed that he knew how his father wanted the music presented. This expectation, however, ignored 'the fact that Siegfried was only 13 years of age when his father died...
Mirza Ali Mahamad began preaching in southern Persia at the age of 19, on May 23, 1844. He prophesied the coming of the Great Teacher. He was condemned and shot to death in 1850. Of his followers, 20,000 were killed by the Sultan...
...age of twelve, Albert Edwin Keigwin maintained a canary in his father's parsonage in Wilmington, Del. It came to pass that the canary fell sick...