Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attendance at eight o'clock dinners and prolonged sessions given over life dance, whose monotonous four-four rhythm, often known as "common time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four of the waltz. But from this very sameness is inculcated a habit from which the plastic age finds it hard to depart Parties become not only more frequent but more lengthy and the rigid two o'clock closing rule of three years ago has been honored during the present season by breaches of from one to three hours...
...pledge to President-elect Herbert Hoover the untiring support and earnest prayers of Methodists throughout the land to the end that the will of the people directed against the age-old evil of drink shall prevail...
...have not seen Paul von Hindenburg for 70 years,* except on innumerable posters and pictures, during the War and afterwards. . . . Yet I remember him distinctly - tall for his age, athletically built, and handsome...
Since some of the ceremonies would take place in temporary buildings, imitative of a remotely bygone age, these had to be especially constructed at Kioto, ancient Capital of Japan. The hereditary families of workmen and carpenters, who from age to age erect these buildings, naturally came high-because of their unique, hereditary purity. It was easy to spend over 16 millions of dollars...
...Beth-Shemesh, Dr. Elihu Grant of Haverford College has found jugs and vases which represent a bronze age culture...