Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terriers have profiled from a week's tour of the south during Easter vacation and should be able to give the Crimson a real test. Captain Jack Barr, Henry Thompson, Age Cordingly, and Bob, Graves are the four veterans in Harvard's lineup, while Lou Roewer and Waddy Dickerman will make their first Varsity appearances in the five and six positions...
...native of Annspolis, Maryland, Magruder graduated cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1916. From 1916 to 1917 he served as secretary to Mr. Justice Brandeis. He became professor at the Law School in 1925, at the age of 32, and vice-dean...
...although every U. S. State had laws requiring that all children be schooled, some 800,000 U. S. children of elementary school age had no school to go to. Most of them were in poor farm areas that could not maintain a school. Hard times and a slump in real-estate tax collections (still the public schools' chief source of support) increased the number of unschooled children. The nation's public education system rallied from Depression three years ago, but this year was struck again by the backlash of the 1937 Recession. By last week so many distress...
Last January John Davison Rockefeller Jr. reached the age of 65 and last fortnight he announced that, according to regulations, he had retired from the Rockefeller General Education Board, and would soon quit the Rockefeller Foundation. Last week, to the surprise of scientists all over the U. S., the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research enforced retirement rules on its working scientists for the first time, suddenly announced the withdrawal of five of its most brilliant members. Although the five scientists will hand over their administrative duties to younger colleagues, they will all receive pensions, and most of them will continue...
Birthday. Charles Chaplin, cinemactor. Age: 50. Greetings: from 37 Russian cinema directors, who cabled Mr. Chaplin their appreciation especially of his films Modern Times and City Lights...