Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with clarity and profound wisdom, life and literature as he now sees them about him. This giant of the Nineteenth Century finds himself faithful to his gods; but interested in the facts of life as they are changing before him. He is not querulous; but of an absorbed old age which is akin to an eager youth. Among English writers, he advises both Walter de la Mare and John Galsworthy. These, he thinks, are the giants of today's literary England, if giants there...
...interest in education and the rebirth of religious discussion; a third on the interest in upbuilding the health of the human race. To the various writers (two of whom are women, five University professors, three bishops, two canons and two clergymen), these signs indicate another Renaissance age in religion. But to W. R. Inge, " gloomy Dean " of St. Paul's, London, the conditions of such a movement seem indeed obscure. He closes his brief introduction to the book: " If it comes, it will be very welcome...
South Africa. A skull believed older than that of the Rhodesian man of the Broken Hill mine has been found at Belingwe, near Bulawayo. Sir Arthur Keith, who estimated the age of the other skull as older than the Neanderthal man (50,000 years), will examine it. If further remains are found in South Africa, it may prove to be one of the earliest homes of the race, rivalling Java...
From Icarus on, famous flyers have usually been less than 30 years of age ?famous pilots, that is. But it must be remembered that it was an older man, Daedalus, an engineer and a sculptor, who designed the Icarian monoplane and successfully flew it from Crete to Italy...
This incident in the early history of flying is recalled by the recent feat of Major General Mason M. Patrick. General Patrick, who had been transferred from the Engineers Corps to the Air Service only two years earlier, is 60 years of age. He is now Chief of the Army Air Service, and in that position has many times taken occasion to use aeroplanes on his tours of inspection. Some time ago, in order better to familiarize himself with his duties, he began the regular flying course, and about three months ago formed the resolve of actually qualifying...