Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largely through his ingenuity and foresight that the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes came into existence. He is also responsible for getting the present Constitution through the National Assembly-no easy feat in view of the Creation opposition. He is now 75 years of age and is known as the " Grand Old Man of Serbia" or the " Father of the Constitution...
...Herbert Samuel is 52 years of age. He was educated at University College School and Balliol College, Oxford. He is considered one of the most brilliant Jews in the Empire. He was elected a Member of Parliament in 1902; since that time has held seven important Government posts and was three times a Cabinet Minister. In 1919 he was appointed British Special Commissioner to Belgium. King Albert decorated him with the Order of Leopold of Belgium in recognition of his valuable services...
...Significance. This is what your boy really likes to read, out of all the world's literature, unless he's a prodigy, and what you liked to read when you were his age. Imagine a family library without at least one volume containing the glorious words "A cooky-prize," cried Dick Rover, "for whoever first sights the old school...
...Drew a Crowd. The Rev. Ernest Thorn of Peckham, England, has gone to extreme lengths to solve the problem of lax church attendance. Last week he appeared before his flock as Abraham at the age of 127, and told the story of Sarah's death and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. He asked the audience to refrain from applause, and requested that no one regard it as a performance. So great a crowd did he draw that he packed his church twice over. In this connection, it may be pointed out that the modern theatre arose...
...cure as yet. Few things are improbable in surgery, he said, but further research into the nature and cause of cancer is prerequisite. The apparent increase in cancer, he believes, is due partly to the lengthened span of life, as cancer is essentially a disease of middle and old age...