Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garbedian's book is illustrated with several photographs never before published. One of these shows Einstein lecturing at the age of 26, when he had just launched the theory that revolutionized physics by destroying the age-old idea of absolute time (see cut). This week, on the day of the book's publication, Albert Einstein was 60. On his birthday he hinted that he had at last developed a "unified field theory" which would link his picture of the universe with the accepted scientific view of the behavior of the atom...
...three years young Surgeon Harvey Graham, assistant editor of the British Medical Journal, grubbed in museums and medical libraries all over Britain. Fortnight ago he published the first popular "storybook of surgery,"* a book of more than 400 pages, crammed with forgotten incidents of scientific history from the neolithic age to 1938. It includes brief biographies which bring to life such geniuses as Galen, Hippocrates, Ambroise Pare, John Hunter, William Harvey, Joseph Lister. Bits from Dr. Graham's story...
...products sold under the name of oldtime ageless Actress Edna Wallace Hopper is "exaggerated and untrue," the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Affiliated Products, Inc. of Jersey City. Example: an ad which quoted Miss Hopper as saying, "I am past 60,* yet boys scarcely above college age often try to flirt with...
Another feature of the report with which he took exception was the proposal that the retirement age be lowered to a possible 60 years and he pointed to the number of scholars here over that age who were doing good work...
...radio to date has produced few programs of any cultural value whatsoever. To give the devil his due, classical music has never before been so widely disseminated, but in general, program directors seem to assume, a priori, that the average listener's intelligence is little above the ten-year age level. As a result instead of making even a feeble effort to improve the average mind, the guiding hands of radio chose long ago the path of least resistance--programs are brought down to the average level. This is the only rational explanation of the "Green Hornet" adventures, the comedians...