Pentagenarian

The path of Youth is illumined and flooded with the sunshine of optimism, courage, and sincerity: it does not stand in need of such feeble and flickering candle-light as the musty, out-of-date “experience” of cynical and disillusioned pentagenarians and sexagenarians can provide.

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To pentagenarians whose dimming eyes can read this small type it may come as a surprise, indeed a shock, to learn that the household goods of their childhood and early maturity have become collectors’ items and that the very pieces they discarded only yesterday as junk are shatched up today as antiques.

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We are concerned with the prescription of qualifications for promotion of the lower division clerks to upper division posts in the Registration Department. Rule 13 insists on passing certain tests for promotional eligibility. When tests were newly introduced, R. 13A gave 2 years from their introduction for passing them, to all hands — harijan and non-harijan, but the former enjoyed an extra two-year grace period. Rule 13B totally exempted pentagenarians from passing these tests.

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I had never read a more devastating review from Jean Riverton—or, come to think of it, anyone—in my entire life. I could understand why she might have felt Vicky shouldn’t have invaded turf sacred to many of Calusa’s pentagenarians, but Jesus, did she have to rip her to shreds besides?

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