Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declaration Mr Sinclair had sailed hurriedly for Europe, and he believed several others connected with the affair had done likewise. Mr. Sinclair's private Secretary Mr. G. D. Wahlberg had advised Mr. Roosevelt to resign for fear of damage to his reputation, and Mr Wahlberg had mentioned the pass age of $68,000 to the foreman of secretary Fall's ranch. In concluding Archie Roosevelt declared that his, testimoney was all hearsay but that he believed the Committee should have benefit...
...Trotsky were more numerous than those received by the outside world, and that the political dispute of which Trotsky is the center, was "so hot as to mislead some of the Communists themselves." Léon Trotsky, son of a Jewish farmer of the Ukraine, is 44 years of age. At nine he went to Odessa and studied at St. Paul's High School, where, says he: "I displayed great diligence in my studies and always was first in my class." He does not appear to have sponsored Marxism for any personal grievance and was, according to himself, slow...
When people arrive at my age [41], they take all they can get with both hands, and only give with the little finger...
...Then again take the Harvard Freshman who comes up without friends. He meets men his own age and easily gravitates towards a crowd of men all of one type. At Oxford when a man comes up there are only about 200 men in his college, and he soon gets to know them all. He meets men of all ages and types. He gets to know the point of view of other kinds of men, and his intercourse with them is a valuable broadening influence. It is a fact, too, that it does a Freshman good to be thrown with older...
...Bits of Harvard History, by Samuel F. Batchelder, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924. optimistically, that the age-long conflict has been solved by the present experiment with the Freshman Dormitories and suggests that the same principle of "Intramural" reflection might well be extended to other halls of residence...