Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life Span. In 1840 a person aged 50 might have expected to live to be 70. In spite of decreased infant mortality, public hygiene and medical skill, a person now 50 can expect to live only until he is 71. (Louis Israel Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician...
...horse is mature at five years and lives five times that stretch, to 25 years. A man is mature at 18 and should live five times as long, until 90. All men might succeed in doing that if they lived hygienically and wore light clothing. (Gerald B. Webb of Colorado Springs, Colo...
Hygiene. Old people, in general, should continue the "bad" habits that let them live beyond middle age. This consideration gave President Samuel Waldron Lambert of the New York Academy of Medicine (host to this conference on old age) cause to praise the value of temperate alcoholic drinking. His speech cheered his audience, which made many a note. Said Dr. Lambert...
...nearly a third of the alumni with known addresses, being 15,863 strong. In Boston alone there are 4,639 men while the census of all the New England states amounts to 19,481. New York ranks next in numerical strength with 7,652 graduates, 4,806 of which live in New York City. The west coast and neighboring states in the far west have sent 2,882 men to Harvard, California alone boasting of 2,013 alumni of the University. Nevada is at the bottom of the long list with only 23 men, the smallest number in any state...
...live again for you, my dear general, the horror of last night? At dusk the enemy laid down a barrage of kants. All night long we could see shafts of flame biting the midnight sky--the big goethes. At dawn, the tower where we are huddled was schlegelled...