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The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.
He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.
It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.
He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.
To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.
Yet even in the more extreme of such cases we seldom go very far astray in guessing what his age actually is.
The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.
One may be exasperatingly aware that if the answer is favorable it will be judged such only by those of one's own age.
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.
West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
Betty is 16 years of age and had several wins to her credit last year.
Stravinsky, nearing the age of eighty, is like a lost and frantic bird, flitting from one abandoned nest to another, searching for a home.
Wyatt and Whipple, 1950 ), which is a retardation of the orbital motion of particles by the relativistic aberration of the repulsive force of the impinging solar radiation, causes the dust to spiral into the sun in times much shorter than the age of the Earth.

age and given
age may be idealistic, believing and much given to professions of optimism.
Once, Andrus walked by it, hastily scanned the bold black headline and the five-column lead of the article ( by Duane Bosch, staff correspondent -- age not given ), and muttered: `` We a buncha national celebrities ''.
An essay on `` Freedom '' written at 10 years of age quoted the Declaration of Independence, the freedom given to slaves in Canada, and the views of George Washington.
) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.
It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule -- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied -- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty.
Since the mid-1890s Schweitzer had formed the inner resolve that it was needful for him as a Christian to repay to the world something for the happiness which it had given to him, and he determined that he would pursue his younger interests until the age of thirty and then give himself to serving humanity, with Jesus serving as his example.
Amalric, who had been given the County of Jaffa as an apanage when he reached the age of majority in 1151, remained loyal to Melisende in Jerusalem, and when Baldwin invaded the south, Amalric was besieged in the Tower of David with his mother.
The percentage of fluent speakers turns out to be even higher if those under 16 are also taken into account, given that the proportion of bilinguals is particularly high in this age group ( 76. 7 % of those aged between 10 and 14 and 72. 4 % of those aged 5 – 9 ): 37. 5 % of the population aged 6 and above in the whole Basque Autonomous Community, 25. 0 % in Álava, 31. 3 % in Biscay and 53. 3 % in Gipuzkoa.
The age of the patient and the frequency with which BCG is given has always varied from country to country.
In South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, BCG was given at birth and again at age 12.
At the age of 10 he was taken by his mother to hear a talk given by John Thomas in Aberdeen, Scotland.
There can be a 5: 1 toxin variation across plants, and a given plant's toxicity depends on its age, where it is growing, and the local weather conditions.
A tradition, which resembles that of Hannah and Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, states that Ezekiel's mother prayed to God in old age for the birth of an offspring and was given Ezekiel as a gift from God.
This convention is more relaxed in modern age and now it is acceptable among friends to use the given name, but use of the family name is still common.
Cecil was displeased with the arrangement, given his daughter's age compared to Oxford's, and had entertained the idea of her marrying the Earl of Rutland instead.
His father died when he was at the age of three, and he was given no rank nor office of the court.
A given stage of rock and the corresponding age of time will by convention have the same name, and the same boundaries.
Microscopic analysis of the rock ( petrology ) is also sometimes useful in confirming that a given segment of rock is from a particular age.
In the United States, a person legally attains a given age on the day before their corresponding birthday, i. e., the anniversary of his birth corresponding to that age.
At the age of 6, he was given his own regiment of children to drill as cadets, and a year later, he was given a miniature arsenal.
The likelihood of permanent brain damage from any given instance of severe hypoglycemia is difficult to estimate, and depends on a multitude of factors such as age, recent blood and brain glucose experience, concurrent problems such as hypoxia, and availability of alternative fuels.
If a person is suffering such severe effects of hypoglycemia that they cannot ( due to combativeness ) or should not ( due to seizures or unconsciousness ) be given anything by mouth, medical personnel such as EMTs and paramedics, or in-hospital personnel can establish IV access and give intravenous dextrose, concentrations varying depending on age ( infants are given 2 ml / kg dextrose 10 %, children are given dextrose 25 %, and adults are given dextrose 50 %).

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The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 37. 9 %, 59. 3 % was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2. 9 % was 65 years or older
Because he was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness due to sickness at a young age, his family ostracized him and excluded him from public office until his consulship, shared with his nephew Caligula in 37.
There were 4, 118 households out of which 32. 2 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43. 9 % were married couples living together, 14. 2 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 37. 4 % were non-families.
The median age was 37 years.
1959 saw another grand final loss to Melbourne, this time by 37 points, but the fact that the average age of the Essendon side was only 22 was seen as providing considerable cause for optimism.
In 1938, Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his " demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons ".
146, preference-eligible veterans may apply after age 37.
In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power.
In humans, birth normally occurs at a gestational age of about 40 weeks, though a normal range is from 37 to 42 weeks.
There were 2, 832 households out of which 31. 1 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55. 7 % were married couples living together, 4. 8 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 37. 8 % were non-families.
In the town the population was spread out with 15. 1 % under the age of 18, 37. 6 % from 18 to 24, 16. 6 % from 25 to 44, 17. 1 % from 45 to 64, and 13. 6 % who were 65 years of age or older.
At age 37, he hit a career-high 47 home runs during the season ( along with a career-high. 669 slugging percentage ) and finished third in MVP voting for the sixth time.
It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years, compared to 37 for China and 48 for Japan ; and, by 2030, India's dependency ratio should be just over 0. 4.
In rabbinical tradition the age of Isaac at the time of binding is taken to be 37 which contrasts with common portrayals of Isaac as a child.
Rome's second Emperor died at the port town of Misenum on 16 March 37 AD, at the age of seventy-eight, having reigned for 23 years.
The median age was 37 years.
The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 37. 4 %, 58. 3 % was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 4. 3 % was 65 years or older
For example, in a hypothetical stationary population in which half the population dies before the age of five, but everybody else dies at exactly 70 years old, the life expectancy at age zero will be about 37 years, while about 25 % of the population will be between the ages of 50 and 70.
At age 37, Mary turned her attention to finding a husband and producing an heir, thus preventing the Protestant Elizabeth ( still her successor under the terms of Henry VIII's will and the Act of Succession of 1544 ) from succeeding to the throne.
In spite of this, age and growing older are recurring themes in the Sonnets, for example, in Sonnets 138 and 37.

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