Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese merchant of Augusta, Ga., named his 18th child (a girl) Dixie Thurmond...
...flat-rate $650 a month; special treatments like psychoanalysis cost extra. The mass of mentally ill, in their lives of quiet and not-so-quiet desperation, have nowhere to go but the state institutions. Some of these are good, some not much better than Hogarth's 18th Century Bedlam, but few of them can do much to cure their patients. Because of lack of money, modern psychiatry is an all-too-rare visitor in the state hospitals...
Little Ben Hogan, the golfer of the year, squatted on the 18th green at Oakmont Country Club (Calif.) last week, studying a downhill five-foot putt. His opponents regard the process with some awe; Hogan habitually comments that a green is a "hard one to think"; he doesn't say that it is hard to play. He sank the five-footer...
Universal & Permanent. Eli Whitney, an 18th Century Massachusetts Yankee, went broke after his cotton gin invention was widely pirated, and turned to making muskets. He got the idea of interchangeable parts. Before Whitney, each part of each factory product was different from its fellow on another product, even from the same shop. But every Whitney trigger fitted every Whitney gun. This principle of interchangeable parts became the basis of modern industry...
Died. Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, 86, tweedy four-term Democratic governor of Connecticut (1931-39), longtime dean of the Yale Graduate School (1916-30), scholarly editor (1911-40) of the Yale Review, an authority on the 18th Century English novel (The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, A History of Henry Fielding); in New Haven, Conn...