Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nungesser is 32 years of age, and has the most brilliant record of any of the French aces. He was wounded 17 times and has, as a result, a platinum jaw, knee and foot. When he was shot through the jaw and the roof of his mouth, he went on fighting. This cost him nine months in the hospital. He has 105 German planes to his credit, of which 83 were confirmed: 43 shot down and destroyed, 40 forced down within the Allied lines. He was decorated with the Legion d'Honneur, the Medaille Militaire, Croix de Guerre with...
...town of Repelen, near the Dutch border, decided to impose a tax of 2,000 marks a month upon all bachelors over the age of 18. Young men were to be allowed an abatement of 25% if they were between the ages of 18 and 23. Those with little or no income were to be given immunity. The Federal authorities however, were quick to prick this Repelen bubble. They declared that the question of income tax was a matter for the Federal Finance Ministry in Berlin...
Universal suffrage is in force in Sweden; every man and woman over 23 years of age, and not under legal disability, has the right to vote...
...announced that Sir Richard Haget, well known experimenter, has devised an artificial throat capable of uttering with close perfection the tones of human speech and song. In this is recalled the age-old attempts to create a human-like mechanism that could talk like a man. Albertus Magnus is said to have constructed one so perfect that his pious pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the machine with a cane, saying that it was the work of Satan and that Satan was in it. In more recent years mechanical reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel...
...liberal. Aside from the Moderatorship struggle, the most important business to come before the Assembly was Will H. Hays' plan, as Chairman of the Committee on Ministerial Relief and Sustentation, to raise an endowment of $15,000,000 to enable retired ministers to look toward a decent old age. The 10,000 Presbyterian ministers in the United States today receive an average weekly salary...