Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dealt with the menace of revolution to the modern world, and drew the conclusion that the sources of discontent lie "not in superficial politics or economic blunders." As for the Russian Revolution, he found it to be " the outstanding event of its kind in our age...
House of Lords. Lady Astor's bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor to persons under 18 years of age passed its third reading without amendment. It now needs only the Royal Assent before it becomes...
...first duke to be created was the Duke of Cornwall, 1337, but this has always been a royal title. Originally all peers were supposed to be equal. The senior peer of the peerage is Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 15 years of age, who, by virtue of his rank, carries the extra titles of Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England. The dukedom dates from...
Weatherbee is a Nova Scotian, 50 years of age, son of Sir Robert Weatherbee, former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. He set out on April 23 to prospect for an overland route from Burma to Peking, "through country never before traversed by white...
...Story. Outlines- of History - of Science - of Art large, impressive looking books - copiously illustrated - well printed - mental bouillon cubes for an age that takes its information like its breakfast cereal, on the run, and, if possible, predigested - another century may find, perhaps, the whole scope of human knowledge boiled down and salted away in one magnificent, laconic Outline of Outlines, supplanting colleges and five-foot shelves alike. At any rate, here is the first volume of The Outline of Literature - 294 pages covering the rise and progress of human letters from the first books in the world to the age...