Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumnus may let all the intervening commencements slip by with hardly a thought for his perennially expectant Alma Mater. Not so the twentieth. The reasons are fairly obvious. At forty-one or forty-two years of age even a human dynamo feels strongly the temptation to pause for breath and take a look backward. He discovers then a strong curiosity concerning his forgotten classmates. How do they look after twenty years. How much have they got? What do they know? It may be assumed that he has attained by now to what he considers a respectable position in life. Hence...
...this is part and parcel of the young-old grad, or Conrad, complex. But one of its principal ingredients has not been mentioned the challenge to middle age implied in the class secretary's facetious and back-slapping form letter. "Here are the old names, the old setting," it says in effect; "we dare you to fit yourself again into the picture...
Senator Wheeler, who is only 41 years of age, is a Democrat and a " radical." In 1920 he was defeated in the election for the governorship of Montana. Last Fall with the aid of the Non-Partisan League he was elected Senator. He has allied himself with the progressive bloc in Congress...
...Premier Baldwin announced in the House that the Government is prepared to grant facilities to Lady Astor's bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to persons under 18 years of age if it fails to pass through the remaining stages in the time allotted to private members' bills...
...Viviani, lawyer, is 60 years of age. He was Premier when war was declared in August, 1914. A year later he resigned in order to facilitate the formation of a coalition government. Early last year he retired from official life to return to his legal practice. His book, As We See It (an animadversion upon Wilhelm II), was recently published in America, and was reviewed in TIME...