Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little white-skinned Turks of the forthcoming crop will not be permitted to renounce their nationality until they come of age; and if they do so then will be banished automatically from Turkey...
...retiring Commissioner, Sir William Thomas Francis Horwood, who offers "age" as his excuse for resigning, is 59. Lord Byng...
...actual age of Irene Marjory Savidge is 22. The three "naïve" sentences in her testimony which appeared to carry greatest conviction were: "I thought that at Scotland Yard they could summon the King if they wanted to. It's a big place with big people there. ... I thought I had to do everything they told me. . . . When I got home and was told that I needn't have gone to Scotland Yard to be questioned-well, that was when I fainted...
...total contrast stands the Japanese Geisha, neat, skilled in traditional songs, graceful in age-old dances and minutely educated in a polite ritual which by no means always ends in nimble leaping. The Geishas are invariably clean, frequently devout, and have in Japan nothing to be ashamed...
Magazines. In the field of trade journals, where editorial problems are simple, profits great, was a merger: A. W. Shaw Co. (Magazine of Business, System) and McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Inc. (Electrical World, Coal Age, Radio Retailing, Bus Transportation, and many another...