Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Save employers and workers $275,000,000 in 1940, $825,000,000 in three years by freezing payroll levies for old-age insurance at 1% in 1940-41-42, instead of upping the rate to 11/2% next January 1as the law now requires...
...their minimum annual outlays. In the 39 States whose reserves are in a condition permitting reductions, employers stand to save $200,000,000 to $250,000,000 in 1940. > Limit the annual income taxable for unemployment compensation to $3,000, which is now the maximum taxable for old-age insurance. Estimated annual saving to employers...
Harvard has 16 categories of teachers. President Conant's committee found that only one beginning instructor in 20 gets permanent appointment as an associate or full professor. Average time for the journey: 16 years; average age on arrival: 39. The committee proposed that the number of teachers' categories be reduced from 16 to six (including visiting lecturers), that the trial period be cut from 16 to eight years. Salaries, now varying widely in each category, will be made uniform: $1,200 for teaching fellows (graduate students); $2,500 for annual instructors; $2,750 to $3,300 (rising...
...Miss Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod wears her dark hair in a severe bob. She is a daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, former Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. Rated by famed Scientist Sir Arthur Keith "in the front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology and anthropology at Newnham College, a woman...
Hans Friederich Blunck's ice-age novel, Power Over Fire, shows Nordic man as he emerged from the primitive state. In Struggle of the Constellations (Stone Age), and Struggle Against the Gods (Bronze Age), Blunck advanced the Nordics by archeological progression toward the Third Reich. His heroes "get their strength from the soil in which they are rooted, and from their ancestors' blood which flows in their veins...