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Wilson was head of the English department at the University of Saskatchewan, and during the thirties he gave a course on the origin and development of language.
He became President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in his thirties and, since there was no compulsory retirement age in those days, clung to that office until his death, in 1854--at the age of 99!
In a recent survey by CARE-Nepal, almost half of those who came to the voluntary counselling and testing centre at the Doti District Hospital in Silgadhi, a conflict-affected area, during June–July 2004 tested positive for HIV, and almost all of those tested positive were widows in their twenties and thirties [35].
The kidnap victim whom we get to know best is a prize-winning journalist named Maruja Pachón, about whom García Márquez says, in the English translation, "In the bloom of her early thirties, she had married in the Catholic Church at the age of nineteen, and had given her husband five children."
Robb Wilton, that acclaimed and dearly-loved British comedian of the thirties and forties, introduced one of his best wartime monologues with the classic first lines,