Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began by keeping a store. At the age of 18 he met Charity Hallet, who became wife and pious companion. At 26, he owned the first "show" entitled " Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theatre," with which he visited towns as far as New Orleans. His prize " exhibit" was a negress who claimed to be 161 years old and to have been George Washington's nurse. Juggling on street corners and selling bibles contributed to his support...
Ambassador George Harvey, who at the age of 27 was Managing Editor of The New York World, is going to turn reporter again. He will seek the facts in the English farm strike, which he considers the most important current problem in Great Britain...
...probably a wise thing to choose at least one course on a period of History rather remote and different from the present age, for the sake of getting a standard of comparison with our own time...
Another improvement is the establishing of a home for Aged Mediums. It seems that mediums age very quickly. The work undoubtedly is of an exhausting nature; constant communication with the "outside" results in premature baldness, loss of appetite and general decline. The profession might even die out under such adverse conditions if the prospective mediums were offered no inducements. At any rate, it is exceedingly thoughtful of the Association to provide for the graduates of its college. Would that all professional schools could do as much...
...encourage students to cultivate the habit of reading, for pleasure's sake, in the best that men have written. A student of any literature will find it impossible to look at his subject narrowly; he will find that it concerns the history of man's best achievements in any age. He cannot hope to traverse all this vast domain, but he should not feel himself an outcast in any part of it. If he has the zeal of the explorer, he will niter with constant surprises, constant towards for his search...