Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winifred lost her campaign by seven votes, but last week she was rewarded. Samuel Fassler, leader of the Sixth Assembly District, surprised her by planting on her curly dark hair the crown of co-leader, making her the youngest (age 26) and prettiest of Tammany bosses...
...Hore-Belisha became Secretary of State for War in 1937, he began to listen to Captain Liddell Hart's advice, began to mechanize the British Army, improve anti-aircraft defense (Britain had fewer anti-aircraft guns than in 1918 when air attack was much less developed), reduce the age and stuffiness of generals...
German youth was long ago convinced that Nazi destiny is more important than death; French and British youth have found their cause in Hitler's aggressions. But last week as 1,250,000 U. S. students of military age assembled peaceably on the grounds of 1,500 colleges and universities (see p. 46), they were still quite sure they had nothing to fight for, and some of them doubted whether any cause was worth the unpleasantness of dying...
Most emphatic undergraduate journal in the East was The Dartmouth, only daily newspaper in the town of Hanover, N. H., and a member of the Associated Press. Wrote Editor Thomas Wardell Braden Jr.: "In the last great war men of our age died:1) for democracy, 2) to crush German Imperialism. These words don't always mean what they say. We need to remember that there are ideals of truth and realism stronger than the fake ideals which are battering at us from Europe...
Birthday. The Munich ("Peace in Our Time") Conference. Age: one year...