Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What then do statistics show with regard to the class of 1927. Perhaps the most striking fact is the number of very youthful students who are about to complete their college careers. A full score of them have not yet reached their twentieth birthday while more than a hundred others are as yet shy of the formal attainment of manhood. It is also revealed that five percent of the class are of foreign birth, and that the University draws a greater number of foreign students from Poland than any other country...
...create the impression that he is so busy that he cannot stop occasionally to read something that will keep him abreast of the times. That doesn't interest your readers. He must have been the man, a friend of whom wanted to give him a book for a birthday gift, hearing of which another friend said: No, don't give him a book...
...President sent a cablegram to His Britannic Majesty George V, on the occasion of the King-Emperor's 62nd birthday...
...note in TIME, May 16 that you refer to my 70th birthday anniversary as being celebrated with "able handsprings and head-springs," and the erudite commenter in a footnote says that the latter "is a spring performed by lying on the back and then jumping to the feet, the weight of the body coming at first upon the head and shoulders...
...when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since then, for Collected Poems (1921) and The Man Who Died Twice (1924), judges have deemed his poetry worthy of Pulitzer Prizes...