Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Useless and undecorative memorials have recently spring up in such profusion throughout the country that when another one in mentioned, there is a great inclination to forget the whole matter with a shrug. In this age of brick and stone, a truly fitting memorial is a rarety...
...know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. . . . I am aware that there are many honest workers in painting as well as in literature who object to criticism entirely. They are quite right. Their work stands in no intellectual relation to their age. It brings us no new element of pleasure. It suggests no fresh departure of thought, or passion, or beauty, it should not be spoken of. It should be left to the oblivion that it deserves. Intentions...
Lautner's description is as follows: height about 6 feet 2 inches; slender; light hair, light mustache, light blue eyes, a prominent and long jaw, and thin and prominent nose; age 23; walks very erect. Probably wears a reddish brown suit, a light brown or gray overcoat, a soft felt hat and black shoes...
Professor Hanus was born in Silesia, came to this country at the age of four years, and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1878. His connection with the University dates from 1891, when he became assistant professor of the History and Art of Teaching. Ten years later he was advanced to a full professorship. He is well-known for his contributions to educational theory and his work in connection with school inquiries and surveys, and he played a large part in the movement which led to the founding of the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...fall of 1914 an American mining engineer, a man about forty years of age, began the serious business of saving lives, or, to express it in another way, of preventing deaths from starvation. Is there in our history a brighter page than that on which is recorded the accomplishments of the Commission for Relief in Belgium? This engineer who conceived that Relief Commission and was its luminous head throughout the Great War has continued since the armistice in the same serious business of saving lives, of preventing death from starvation, making an uninterrupted service of six long years...