Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chauncey Tinker got his first glimpse of Johnson's Age as a Yale undergraduate, class of '99. Before that, he had lived the peripatetic life of a minister's son (Maine to Colorado), and his great ambition was to be a conductor on the Boston & Maine railway. After Yale, he taught one year at Bryn Mawr and fell in love with a student-"a very beautiful girl." She married someone else, and Tinker settled into bachelordom...
...fast becoming an old folks' world. In the U.S., by 1980 about 40% of the population will be more than 45 years old. Medical science has done so well at prolonging man's life that it has a thriving specialty devoted to making old age more pleasant, or at least more tolerable...
Last week a group of geriatrists (specialists in diseases of old age) met in Philadelphia to compare notes. The bad news: the medical profession has not found-and probably never will find-a pill to make a middle-aged man feel 18 again. But the doctors are by no means pessimistic about other phases of their work...
...Medical Branch. But there is some hope, he said, in experimental work on vitamins as a means of making oldsters feel at least a little spryer. There seems no possibility of learning how to keep the heart, blood vessels and kidneys in first-class working condition deep into old age. But, asked Dr. Leake: "Do any of us want to? ... Will it not be possible for us some day to realize that death is a part of life...
...accession to the throne, he had their marriage annulled. But Jeanne never ceased praying for his soul. She founded the Order of the Annunciades; later she herself took the order's vows and wore its habit under her clothes. After she died in 1505, at the age of 40, many healing miracles were attributed to her, and Roman Catholics have long regarded her as a saint...