Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started school near the little Kansas wheat town of Ada (pop. 150), she happened to be the only one in her class. She sat in with the second and third grades and wished that she might soon skip a grade, or that a new family, with another child her age, would move into the neighborhood. She kept on wishing...
...bulldog-jawed, 5 ft. 10½ in. Ben Jones walks with short, mincing steps and a hint of a limp (from a football injury). But he sits a horse straighter than most men half his age. Outside Barn 15 at Churchill Downs last week, atop his stable pony, Ben hardly looked like the boss of the most efficiently run stable in U.S. racing history. There are no fancy airs about Ben Jones, from Parnell...
...been idle since he was "fired"* for an ankle injury five months ago. According to present plans, he will run in Chicago this summer. Shuddering to think of how much poundage handicappers would pile on him, Ben Jones is looking ahead to such weight-for-age fall classics as Belmont's Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Pimlico Special...
...take the affirmative side of the topic." "Are Corporation Profits Too High?" This he did. The debate came off without great excitement. But soon afterwards Leonard said, the dean advised him on a friendly basis that taking the affirmative side in such a debate was not the age it get ahead at Rutgers...
Growing Pains. In Taylorville, Ill., Bill Grant, manager of a chain of movie theaters, received a $5 bill and an anonymous letter: "This money is in payment for the times. I lied about my age in order to get into the show for half price...