Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of recent experiments," he said, "33 tests of cheating behavior were devised and applied to children from nine to 14 years of age. These tests were conducted largely in the classroom but some of them pertained to the action of children at parties and in the home. To insure accurate results the experiments were necessarily made in a disguised manner...
...conclusions which these men reached were the most interesting feature of the address. "There is no difference in the cheating behavior of children of different sex, nor does difference in age between the years of nine and 14 affect their deceitful conduct. Intelligence, however, is a significant factor, as is the economic and social status of the children's homes...
...largest of its kind shown in America up to the present time, and an interested public now has an opportunity to trace the complicated development of the nineteenth century. In this period new creative forces were stirring--new ideals arose which sought expression in new forms. The age was weary of revivals, always a sign of creative weakness. It had had enough of academic rules and formulae long since outworn and no longer able to express the contemporary point of view. That the age had something to say is very powerfully shown in such pictures as Van Gogh...
...conversion in 1876, although he could neither read nor write; and it was then that he began his practice, which he has followed to the present day, of singing hymns to his audience when his vocabulary failed. When the Great War broke out, he tried to enlist, but his age disqualified him. He served as a minister, however, with the British Y. M. C. A. in 1916, 1917, and 1918, and for his work on the battlefields, he received the decoration of the order of the British government and the personal thanks of the King. At the close...
...edited both the school and college newspapers. During the War he was a leader in the R. 0. T. C. movement. Intense in all things, he had his hair close-cropped as an example in military efficiency to the battery of which he was ist Sergeant. The moment the age-limit was lowered to permit it, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Field Artillery...