Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember 1900. "Suppose," he said, "someone in the year 1900 had predicted that within 50 years the amount of goods consumed per person in the United States would have risen two and one-half times, that nearly four out of five children of high school age would be in high school, that the number of university students would increase four times as fast as the population, that nearly every family would own an automobile, a telephone, and a wireless receiving set ... that this would be accomplished after paying the cost of the nation's participation in two great world...
...McCandless burning at both ends," said the lowly disciple, grovelling before the Sage of the Age...
...frankly admitted by the students and the dean's office, and is hallowed by age-old traditions like freshman dinks. It is memorialized each year by a "cane spree," which starts as a series of wrestling contests between freshmen and sophomores, and traditionally degenerates into free-for-all pandemonium...
...meeting will set on a proposal to lower the maximum age at which a man becomes ineligible to serve on the State Council...
Miss St. Denis is now in her late sixties--an age at which most dancers would prefer to sit quietly in the dark. Happily, however, a great many of her dances involve very little footwork and age has not yet withered Miss St. Denis' talented and talkative hands. All of the dances performed in this concert were executed with the hands and, usually, a piece of cloth...