Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the 48 State constitutions generally resemble their venerable counterpart, one major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire has had eleven constitutional conventions, Louisiana ten, New York seven. In 1894 New York's Legislature made mandatory a referendum every 20 years after 1916 on whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week...
...university freshmen, found that girls worried mainly over whether they were popular, that boys were afraid of being underweight, of not taking sufficient interest in their work, of not being able to meet their responsibilities or find financial security after graduation, of having to support their parents in old age. Two percent of the boys and 4% of the girls feared going insane. Three percent of the boys, none of the girls feared they were adopted children. About 10% in each sex were afraid of death. In general, the less intelligent freshmen worried more than their mental superiors...
...sigh when they think of the magnificent open-field technique of Vanderbilt, Harriman, Gould and Hill, sighed again last week when Leonor Fresnel Loree, on the point of turning 80. resigned as president of Delaware & Hudson Co. Mr. Loree has a beard and a ferocious scowl. But despite his age and looks, he was always only on the fringes of the swashbuckling, end-of-the-century railroad men who ran railroads, the stock-market and a few States. He was a Harriman man, less of a giant than a tall man with aspirations...
CONCERT PITCH-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2.50). Subtle, simply written novel of the post-War Paris musical world, brilliantly dramatizing the doom of the virtuoso, the dissonant emergence of a new machine age; by the author of last year's distinguished surprise bestseller, The Life and Death of a Spanish Town...
WINGED PHARAOH-Joan Grant-Harper ($2.50). Poetic first-person narrative about a co-ruler and priestess during Egypt's First Dynasty, described as a Golden Age of justice and the arts, in which the instructions in the Book of the Dead are carried out as casually as cooking recipes...