Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greece, who is now dealing with affairs in Turkey, is much too weak for the task. This Mr. Morganthau represented to Mr. Venizelos at the Peace Conference in 1919, but that statesman whom the speaker characterized as one of the greatest men of the age, while admitting the truth of Mr. Morgenthau's assertion, said that to withdraw the Greek troops from Asia Minor would be fatal to his ministry. Mr. Venizelos' ministry has fallen, and the Greek troops remain in Turkey, but they are accomplishing nothing...
Students in preparatory schools who are looking forward to four careless years of rollicking good fellowship based on the fact that they are approximately of the same age and let loose upon the town for the first time should seek a college where the majority of undergraduates are sufficiently immature to want...
...Lampy, forty-five years of age this month, has got out another Graduates' Number. It is a good...
...John's University of Shanghai also is desirous of obtaining the services of several American college men for three year terms to teach in Physics, Political Science, and Commerce departments. China's ancient civilization in this transition age is being modernized, and no stronger influence to the progress of development is at work than that of institutions like St. John...
...account of the war. But real literary men are now interested in the subject, and the matter they have turned out is of excellent quality. I think that such a list of names as Shaw, Yeats, Galsworthy Dunsany and many others, compares favorably with those of almost any other age...