Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all!" Yet Mrs. Mary Harris Jones-"Mother" Jones-attended the Farmer-Labor Convention in Chicago (see page 5) and made a speech that, if surprising in a woman of her age, could hardly be described as poorly done...
What made the speech "surprising ' was that such coherence, such sense and such spirit should come from the lips of a woman of 93- for Mary Harris was born in Ireland in 1830. She was taken to Canada at the age of seven, was educated there, and later went to the South and worked in the cotton mills. There she fought child labor. There she married and had four children. There husband and children were swept away by yellow fever...
...Claude A. Burrett, of Rochester, N. Y., contained the not original assertion that 20 years will be added to the average span of life in the next half century, and that the time is near when it will be "a crime" to die under 75 years of age from diabetes, Bright's disease, the cardiac vascular diseases and pos-sibly cancer. Dr. Leonard Williams, London specialist, recently made a similar statement, setting up 120 years as man's probable goal. It is true that the span of life in the United States has increased approximately 15 years since...
...their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa. But Alich also believes that various other factors affect this potential energy of the germ cell, including potency, fatigue, old age, and has evidence for this from horses, sheep and roosters. Dr. James W. Mavor, of Union College, has discovered that X-rays can eliminate the X-chromosome in the eggs of the fruit fly Drosiphila, upsetting the balance between the sexes of the offspring...
...years, based on a study of the rate of decomposition of radioactive elements. This is vastly greater than any previous estimate, modern geologists having ranged between 100,000,000 and 1,600,000,000 years in their conjectures. All these estimates rest upon very slender assumptions, but that the age of the earth is to be reckoned in hundreds of millions of years is a scientific certainty. Lord Rayleigh's estimate, if sustained, also revises the probable antiquity of man and the lower animals, indicating that the earth's crust has been capable of supporting life at least...