Date (happened)
  • c. 1922
    "when I was seventeen years and six months old", told in Imagination Plus Faith (Second Delivery) (nid 4006)
  • c. August 1922
    passage 556974 (lecture nid 4006), 'seventeen years and six months old'; combined with the corpus birth anchor hist_event 950 (1905-02-19, certain)
At seventeen and a half he left the island for America uneducated, was turned down for a wire-stringing job with the telephone company for lacking educational background, and ended up working at J. C. Penney as little more than a busboy.