Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week, this version of a 20-year-old War song was sung by 3,000 U. S. youths and maidens of about that age who congregated in the Capital to lobby for passage of the American Youth Act. Unimpressed by foreign crises, nationwide Recession or the advisability of attending to their homework, the "pilgrims" were in hope that a parade, attendance at Senate subcommittee hearings and their innocuous yodelings would persuade Congress to pass a bill of which the major intent is to provide part-time jobs for the youth of both sexes between...
...Roslyn's fourth-grade children ranged from 7 to 16 in age. Now fewer children are retarded. Instead of keeping backward pupils with younger children, Roslyn's schools promote them, give them coaching in their weak subjects...
More than any class since that of '17, the men who graduate this June must weigh the chances of going to war along with their other plans for the future. And because they are at the most eligible age for service, it will rest largely in their hands just what policy the citizens of the United States will take toward...
When a golden age of Harvard supremacy on the squash courts came to an end with a Yale victory last year, Harry Cowles was not grief-stricken...
...ideal, elusive and momentary like the touch of spring wind. For that reason it is a greater prize than individual Immortality. Happiest of all, it can be experienced during life. But the more distant is a goal, the more chance that less will reach it. Will the Soulless Age come to disbelieve in Immortality by an inability to achieve it through Work, and thereby generate moral and spiritual decadence...