Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children to school, so last week the board met to take action. The law, in strictest letter, was on the board's side, yet from District Prosecutor Wayne MacGregor Jr.-supported by State Attorney General Graydon Smith-came an unexpected defense. Asked MacGregor: "May a person of school age no longer reside in a locality of his own choosing unless it is within walking distance of a school or is served by a school bus?" If the children could not get to school from a log cabin many miles away, "must the sanctity of the home be invaded...
...fertility rate" (births per 1,000 in the child-bearing age group between 15 and 44) receded 2.3% to 116.9 during 1958's first eight months and is not likely to resume its seven-year rise, says Population Reference Bureau, until after the recession's impact on the birth rate wears...
...age of jets, nuclear submarines, atomic bombs, missiles and electronic computers, science and military planners have been painfully slow coming to the rescue of the foot soldier. But last fortnight the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe, Va. displayed an arsenal of new gear designed to give the well-armed G.I. more mobility, independence of action and firepower in the next war. Items...
...have been a tumor if you found the cause of it." Today no line of investigation into the origins of human cancer is being pressed more vigorously than that implicating viruses as at least partly responsible. Though he has never worked with human cancers, and was technically "retired" for age 14 years ago, Peyton Rous still has the same staff, works as hard as ever hunting clues to cancer's causes, doubles as a consultant to Sloan-Kettering Institute...
...year period, inaugurated by Conductor Leopold Damrosch, not a word of anything but German was heard in the house. Wagner was performed in thunderous repetition, and the greatest soprano of the period, Lilli Lehmann, sang Carmen in German in her Met debut. But during the Met's "Golden Age of Song," at the turn of the century, Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, et al. educated their audiences to hear Italian and French operas sung in their original languages. Still, educated or not, Guest Star Adelina Patti could stop the opera by singing Home...