Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of us have little idea of the extent to which we depend on the past for our opinions. Look over a book like Fraser's abridged edition of "The Golden Rough" and you will be surprised at the number of customs that have come down from the Stone Age. The past may be right and we cannot challenge all its heritage...
...plan of the investigation is to take several hundred children and submit them at intervals to measurements and tests over a period of twelve years, say from the age of six to the age of eighteen. This will give an accurate record of how each individual child is growing mentally and physically throughout that period. Hitherto practically all the information secured by physicians, teachers, and psychologists on the mental and physical growth of children has been based on averages from the measurement of groups, and thus has thrown but little light on the relation between bodily and mental growth...
...course any self-respecting ghost actively engaged in the business at present will understand at once the importance of this new ruling. Methods of the Victorian Age can no longer be tolerated. To be a success as a ghost today a presence must not only exist; it must proclaim itself, communicate on every possible occasion and, when out of breath, be ready with silent visitations. It must also be prepared at any time to submit to scientific analysis. There is no telling when a call may come in for an interview with the Shrouded Lady of Edgely Manor, Hants...
...mouse, the fashion-model, and the king all have borne their three thousand winters without signs of old age. They were found as they had been left, connecting links between the ages, to prove that ancestors are not far different from contemporaries. There will be nothing incongruous in the appearance of the modern debutante in a dress made of Tutankhamen silks. "Luxorian models are all the rage, and the Pharoahic skirt is destined to appear at Palm Beach and the Copley." And wives of the future may adopt the "Ankhsenpaten smile...
...speaker outlined briefly the life of Sandro Botticelli, who was born in 1444 and had produced a masterpiece before he reached the age of 25. He emphasized the fact that Botticelli remained unheralded until, at the end of the sixteenth century. Ruskin became active in bringing him into prominence. In commenting on his works, Mr. Carruth pointed out the personaltly expressed in the painter's figures, praising especially "Prime Vera" with its implied action in every group...