Word: octogenarian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...That eager will has not relaxed. That calm, clear intelligence is not less insistent in its demands. There is the same impatience with things as they are and the resolve to change them in the interest of things as they ought to be. I am not sure that the octogenarian is not still open to the criticism of middle-aged persons that he "wants to do too many things at once." In any organization to which he belongs you will find him pulling at the tugs with all his might, in the tranquil assurance that there will be enough prudent...