Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freshman year, Miss Henry was discussing rock specimens with Prof. Branner in his laboratory. A stocky, serious-looking young man came in. He was a senior. Prof. Branner introduced him and said: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous age. What do you think. Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
...launched a new church and designed a wagon to grind corn while it rolled along. He built up the navy, encouraged business, absorbed Wales, pacified (for a few moments) Ireland, weakened hostile Scotland, played the flute, started a book, jousted in the tiltyard, began the great English age that was to be called Elizabethan...
...week in the Manhattan offices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, to explain to reporters the plans of the Transcontinental Air Transport Co. of which he is "technical adviser." As he (lid so, something escaped about his outlook on his own future. Asked about an age limit for pilots, he replied: "I can't recognize that there is any limit. I will continue flying until I am no more able to handle a machine...
...week he was made President of the University of Chicago. Going from Yale, where he is Dean of the Law School, he will duplicate and improve upon the feat of Chicago's first President, William Rainey Harper, who made the same journey for the same purpose at the age...
Juror: "No, because at that age I knew all about...