Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor, that is) has a conscience, and the thought of using the sophisticated argument that the Justices were so old they needed six additional associates, was more than he could stomach. Or perhaps the memory of Mr. Justice Holmes, in full possession of his faculties at the age of 91, was too fresh. In any event, Professor Frankfurter did not support the Court packing plan, and the President was deeply wounded...
...must fall back on their old standby, the U. T. For the rest of the week there is a program being offered which, if not of the kind to rekindle with terrible intensity the fires of that beautiful loyalty, is nevertheless much better than average. It includes "That Certain Age," a picture far better, and "Straight, Place, and Show," one not nearly so bad, as many of the advance reports would indicate...
...William McDougall, psychology professor at Harvard from 1920 to 1927, died Saturday at Duke University at the age of 67. Educated in England, he was noted for his extensive researches into all fields of human behavior including even extrasensory perception...
...Philosophical Society, and the Peabody Museum, collected in the early part of the year. Advancing along the Irrawaddy River deep into the heart of southern Asia, the expedition opened up entirely new areas for the study of man's early development and has shed much light on the Pleistocene age, which scientists estimate ended several hundred thousand if not half a million years...
While in Burma, the party discovered traces of a civilization totally different from Europe's first signs of man in the lower-Paleolithic age. Whereas the cave men of the primeval western world fashioned fairly useful implements, the early Burmese peoples had extremely crude contrivances with which to secure their food and protect themselves. When the geologists examined chipped rocks in the gravel of the Irrawaddy Valley, they had great difficulty determining whether natural or whether human forces had been at work...