Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Governor-elect Woodring. Also Elk City, Kans. rather than Neodesha, Kans. [about ten miles away] was the Woodring birthplace. His early activities with a pop corn stand attracted the attention of the Elk City banker which resulted in young Woodring's choosing that vocation [banking] at an early age. His present home is Neodesha. L. E. SMITH...
...Year's Day.* The Man. Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, self-named Pius XI, last week celebrated the 51st anniversary of his ordination as priest. He was 73 last May 31. Next Feb. 6 marks the ninth anniversary of his election to St. Peter's Throne. Age has not staled his sharp intellect but has somewhat impaired his stocky body. Outdoor life, particularly mountain climbing, gave him a good health foundation. He is now fully recovered from his indisposition of last summer. Every fine day his ornate limousine, containing an easy chair, takes him into the Vatican gardens, where...
...age of 28, handsome Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94) "Father of Modern Chemistry," married a 14-year-old girl. She learned Latin so that he would not be ashamed of her, taught herself English to translate his articles. Gentle, smiling Mrs. James Watt, first wife and cousin of the steam engine's inventor (1736-1819) had continually to encourage her husband to work...
...film industry (No. 1 still Adolph Zukor, No. 2 Harley L. Clarke instead of William Fox) made it seem wise and profitable for Publisher Quigley to acquire all but Film Daily and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron Age...
...painter could not be fulfilled, because it would mean long study in schools and much money to support him. His family could not afford this, and Russell went to work in an accounting office. He was not able to take up painting until he was over forty years of age...