Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold T. Edwards, a member of the staff of the Fatigue Laboratory since its founding 10 years ago, died on Tuesday at the age of 40. Edwards besides being a Research Associate in the Laboratory, was Biological Chemist to the Hygiene Department...
...those energetic souls who has a healthy dislike for people who spend their lives telling others how to conduct themselves and yet never manage to accomplish anything worthwhile themselves. Of a temperament eager and alive to things new, and yet not blind to what has come down from ages and generations past, he delights in old works which have so breathed the breath of life that they still cast their influence on people today, and he takes pleasure in the men who interpret these old works to a new age, a new generation, in the light of new ideas...
...this the old soldier recounted, in pompous language but frank detail, in memoirs which he wrote for his kinsmen only. He was aware that he had led a remarkable life, believed that he had lived in a remarkable age. After his right hand was crippled at Ball's Bluff, he learned to write with his left. But his left arm was paralyzed at Antietam, so when he sat down to tell the story of his life he shifted back to the crippled right...
...leave our age the quite considerable spark
...age, however awful, in the utter dark...