Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant reiterated his plea for a "spirit of hard-headed idealism" as an approach to the atomic age yesterday morning when he paused midway through a two week tour of Texas to address the student body of Baylor University at Waco...
...also agreed last night to support the campaign for lowering the minimum voting age to eighteen years, and set up two fact-gathering committees to work on matters involving political action and University affairs...
...cinema is concerned. One of the more minor entries in the life after death derby is "The Cockeyed Miracle," into which somebody lured Keenan Wynn and Frank Mergan. The supposedly whimsical situations that were only mildly funny back in the days of "Topper" are beginning to age just a bit. No longer is unchecked mirth provoked by the familiar business of having characters invisible to their fellows on the screen, yet conveniently apparent to the audience, walking through walls and evening thunderstorms. All this is involved in a trail tale about an old gentle man who dies and insists upon...
...over 3,000 years, this yarn has been good enough for millions of people.* But in the current issue of American Scientist, Dr. Arthur F. Taggart belittles it to pieces. The Golden Fleece, Dr. Taggart explains, was probably nothing but a detail of Heroic Age mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart...
...Nebraska lawyer, Professor Pound followed his mother into botany in his college days, taking his degree in that subject from his state's university in 1888 at the age of 17. He was granted a Master's degree the following year and in 1897 earned a Ph.D. in botany...