Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a storm on Capitol Hill by suggesting that the Midwest was poor and drought-stricken, slim, brunette Editor Marion Sanders, 43, took over. Since then, Amerika has provoked no senatorial tempers. Welles-ley-educated Mrs. Sanders is a doctor's wife and mother of two college-age youngsters. She knows no Russian and has never visited the U.S.S.R.; Moscow cold-shouldered her request for a visa last year...
...class of '49, FORTUNE found, is a mature one (average age: 24). Seven out of ten male seniors are veterans, and three out of ten are married. "But it is in a different respect that the character of '49 is really extraordinary. For '49 ... has turned its back on what its elders automatically assume is ... one of the most cherished prerogatives of youth. Forty-nine is taking no chances...
...Possibilities Unlimited has employed some of the techniques of Alcoholics Anonymous. When it hears of someone who has just had an amputation, it sends a member to visit him in the hospital, and offer practical advice; so far as possible the visitor is chosen to match the patient in age, general background and type of operation...
...range in age from 19 to 26, have been studying in DP camps. Most of them had fled their countries when the Communists took over, the three Czechs all crossing the border illegally after the coup last spring...
Charles W Holt, who had charge of Newell Boathouse for 25 years, died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Friday at the age of 90. Holt was an HAA employee for 45 years before his retirement in 1933. For most of this period he was in complete charge of the maintenance and repair of all the College's eight-oared shells...