Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Writing in Collier's a fortnight ago about the meeting last winter at French Lick, Ind., where the Scripps-Howard editors voted unanimously to support Hoover, Chairman Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard board of directors said: "The average age of the 26 men was just a trifle over 30 years...
...took the prestige and initiative of the New York Academy of Medicine to hold, lasting the past fortnight, the country's first thorough conference on the medical problems of old age. Several hundred doctors, from all parts of the U. S., were attending...
...physical standards to be met are likewise exacting. In addition to freedom from disease and deformity, the applicant must measure up to definite requirements of height and weight. For instance, at the age of 20 a man six feet in height must weigh at least 146 pounds; and the other ages and heights are graded accordingly. No man is admitted of less than five feet four inches in height...
Contemporary feats of aviation and exploration are dominating attention by accomplishment. Scientific and archeological expeditions, more obscure, are as permanent in daring and achievement. In an age that turns anew to the production of complete gentlemen, of physical as well as intellectual fortitude, Count Von Luckner's is a fortuitous invitation to the men that may profit from it most...
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States Supreme Court, a graduate of Harvard in the Class of 1861, is now the oldest man who has ever sat on the bench of this highest tribunal of the nation. At eighty-seven years of age he passes the record of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, his ability to see the whole as well as the minutiae of legal disputes undimmed by the years. Many lawyers have found in him a new keenness of attack, born since he left behind the retiring age of seventy. He has never been a didacticist...