Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mothers threatened their young, "If you're not good. Tom Paine will get you." A century later Theodore Roosevelt testified that officially it was still open season on Paine when he referred to him as that "filthy little atheist." Author Pearson is not the first modern biographer to adopt the thesis that Paine's notoriety had its source in political rather than religious causes, but in his Tom Paine he gives more room than his predecessors have to the part played by Paine's personal makeup in turning him against Congress, his onetime heroes Washington, Burke, Robespierre...
...number of courses the chance to see a blue book after it has been written is altogether denied, or made so hard that the exploratory genius of a Peary is needed to freeze the book out of the files. Clearly it is up to the college to adopt a uniform policy insuring the return of these papers...
...press conference held before he sent it to Congress, President Roosevelt intimated that he thought it would be foolish to build up such a huge reserve. For the time being he would be content to let the reserve pile up, but after it has got a start, adopt a "pay-as-you-go" policy, presumably reducing Social Security taxes so as to collect no more than was paid out in pensions...
Object of a waif like Ching-Ching, as seasoned child cinemaddicts are well aware, is to find rich and personable parents to adopt her. Randall is unmarried and the only eligible girl on board, Susan Parker (Alice Faye), is already engaged and traveling with her future mother-in-law. This does not dishearten Ching-Ching. She shows Randall and his valet (Arthur Treacher) how to sing a lullaby, goes sightseeing in Hongkong and voices a few proverbs, which detective picture addicts will recognize as from the Chanese. Sample: "A child without parents is like a ship without a rudder." When...
...really indicate velocity, he wrote, one has a "rather simple and thoroughly consistent picture of a universe in which . . . the large-scale distribution of nebulae is uniform throughout the sample available for inspection." On the other hand, to assume that the shifts really indicate receding velocity forces one to adopt a very curious model of the universe. "The model is closed and very small-a large fraction can be observed with existing telescopes-and is packed with matter to the very threshold of perception-. The rate of expansion has been slowing down so that the past time scale is remarkably...