Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion interest on the $251 billion national debt. $2.4 billion for social welfare (old age assistance, education, public health...
...members were ex-lawyers and ex-law professors; only two of them (Vinson and Rutledge, who had served on the Court of Appeals) had had any previous experience on the bench. As Supreme Court justices they were young (average age, 59)-Seven of them, the largest number of appointees by one President since Washington, owed their jobs to Franklin Roosevelt. The Nine in the order of their appointments...
...Streets. Eddie didn't die. After removing some of the clotted blood from his lung, the doctors said he would play ball again. He sat up in bed and tolerantly described Ruth as a "Baseball Annie," one of an army of hero-worshiping teen-age girls who follow players around. He was kind of puzzled, though: "I don't know what got into that silly honey. Why pick on a nice guy like me?" After a second operation he learned that Ruth wasn't taking things too hard and lost his temper: "She seems to think this...
Remarkable Reform. By 1947, some of the boys were running wild enough-gambling and crapshooting in dark corners of the Capitol-to make Congress yank the rein. The old school was replaced by the present District branch; an age limit of 14 to 18 was set; closer control was imposed on after-hours activities. At the same time, tuition was dropped, salaries boosted, and uniforms of all pages made uniform, except for the knee-breeches which the Supreme Court still requires...
...excrete a special steroid. No one knows why, but Dobriner hopes to find out. The mysterious steroids from the glandular orchestra are apparently concerned with all the changes in the body's cells. "If you want to know about cancer," says Dobriner, "you must also know about old age, hypertension and degeneration." Thus, cancer research may discover, as a sort of byproduct, what makes people grow...