Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elected in that 'district to the 67th (last) Congress, with a majority of 18,650 votes over his Democratic opponent, Major Kennelly. But when it came to election to the 68th (present) Congress, he faced one Sol Bloom. Mr. Bloom is a gentleman of career: "at an early age" he went into the newspaper business, then he went into the theatrical business, and before his 21st birthday had "built a theatre." Next he became a music publisher, with 80 branch stores, and gained the title of "the music man." He "later became identified with the Victor Talking Machine...
...privilege of wearing the insignia of a full-fledged filer. When over sixty years old he insisted on being taught to fly like any other airman, because, as he said, he wanted to experience and understand all the risks that his subordinates took. He has thus the record for age at the time-he "won his wings...
...bring Eastern psychology to the West, in the Western form," said Mr. A. R. Orage, who was for fifteen years editor of the "New Age" (London), in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, yesterday afternoon. Mr. Orage has written several volumes on economics, literary criticism, and psychology. He is author of the revolutionary Social Credit Theory...
...Osage, formerly of the London "New Age" and at present connected with a new movement in education, will speak at the Liberal Club at lunch today. His subject will be "The Garfield Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man." The luncheon is open to all members of the University...
Jacques Loeb is dead-the greatest exponent Since Haeckel of what he called "the mechanistic conception of life." And because Loeb lived in the age of rigorously experimental biology, he contributed far more to the scientific verification of materialistic theories than did the greatest iconoclasts of an earlier day. The thesis to which he 'devoted his life of research might be stated briefly thus: "The activities as well as the origins of all living organisms, including human beings, are determined and motivated by physicochemical forces in their environments or inheritance." His experiments in support of this...