Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Ursula Williams, Labor, youngest woman candidate, is a "beautiful girl of 26," not old enough to vote (30 is the minimum age for women). Said she: "My interest in politics is general, as well as feminine Luckily I know something about my constituency, having canvassed it, on and off, for father, since...
...nucleus of modern civilization is machinery Age of iron! Heart of iron! The machine has become a monstrous idol. It must be done away with. Thousands of years ago India learned the art of self control and mastered the science of happiness. India must go back to the sources of her ancient culture--the plow and the spinning wheel...
Those who see "Cosi Sia" will behold a woman aged in years, a woman who, in spite of her sixty six years scorns even the slightest bit of modern stage make up. Her hair is now quite gray, and age shows upon her face, but in her thoughts and her actions she is as young and beautiful as the girl of fifteen who won the love of Italy when she first stopped on the stage as Juliet...
...age Psychology is still a baby among the sciences. Within the short sixty years or so of its active life it has been so busy in turning out marvels in its study of the human mind, that it has been able to pay little attention to supernatural or extraordinary phenomena. It has never called them false; it has simply asked for proofs. Now with the great renaissance of the supernatural, it has determined to go out and get proofs for itself. Just as William James was a pioneer in discovering how the human mind worked, so now Professor MacDougall, following...
...perhaps trite to say that conditions have changed in South America since 1823. The age of European colonization has passed, and with it the necessity of protection for these "little sisters" by the United States. But peace and tranquility on the southern continent are still rather abstract ideals. The aftermath of the failure of the fifth Pan American Conference at Santiago to limit the armaments of Argentine, Brazil, and Chile has been a renewal of military and naval competition...