Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stone Age a fight was simply a fight. A throwback to Stone-Age man is potbellied Tony Galento, Orange, N. J. bartender, who shrugs his chubby shoulders at the fancy art of boxing, scoffs at the modern mode of training. Tony Galento's fighting technique is amazingly simple: His attack is limited to one sweeping motion with his left hand; his defense takes care of itself...
...year took up the study of aeronautics at M. I. T. After his graduation he worked for Glenn L. Martin, then one of the foremost U. S. airplane designers. First he was an engineer, then was put in charge of Martin's Cleveland factory, and finally, at the age of 25, became vice president and chief engineer. When he decided to strike out on his own in 1920, he had saved just enough to feed his family for six months. Within that six months he persuaded a young Los Angeles millionaire named David R. Davis to finance...
Died. Stephen Parrish, 91, a major U. S. etcher during the last century, father of famed Artist Maxfield Parrish; of old age; in Plainfield...
...which he charged that the Supreme Court reversed itself--and a proposal by a "prominent corporation attorney whose opinions in the post have carried great weight in the courts" that rate making powers of Federal regulatory agencies should be transferred by Congress to the courts, Wallace said, "One year age a great battle was fought to decide whether the courts could take over the function of determining policy for the nation. This year another battle seems to a opening...
Most of the older members of the department have over-emphasized the capitalization of the Classics, making them into a remote land in which they have sort of monopoly of exploitation. The notion that there can be any connection of thought between the Classical age and modern times has received little attention from them, and only a few of the younger men have corrected this by viewing the Classics as literature and putting it into terms other than second-hand nineteenth century "appreciation.' The department might be described as piling on Ossa of inherited Classical scholarship on a Pelion...