Word: adopter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalled her grandmother's stories about eight brothers & sisters around the family dinner table. "I remember that there was always room for one more. There is always room for one more†ones who have no room elsewhere." Mother MacArthur clinched her argument by saying she would gladly adopt a child sight unseen,† if assured it was not mentally defective. Said she poignantly: "I never saw my own child until he was placed in my arms after he was delivered...
...Sisters' recording sold 150,000, 20,000 more than their Bei Mir Bist Du Schön for same period. It reached fourth place in the Hit Parade. This week, just as the radio got wise, the Fishery Council New York and Middle-Atlantic Area Inc. decided to adopt Hold Tight as its theme song...
...deemed practical to adopt for all courses the method of History I, which mails section assignments to all its students. Officials pointed out that the college's clerical staff is already overworked, and the added task of mailing cards of every course twice a year would be inadvisable. Also pointed out was the probability that undergraduates would misplace their cards, resulting only in confusion. According to Reginald H. Phelps '30, dean of Records, monitors will be called together, at the beginning of each academic year and following midyears. At these meetings, they will be instructed to keep the lists secret...
Taxpayers of Westchester County, N. Y. held a mass meeting last week in White Plains to protest the cost of their State Government. One speaker suggested that the Republican Legislature adopt a greatly reduced budget, let Democratic Governor Lehman veto it if he dare. State Senator Pliny W. Williamson (Republican) expostulated: "You wouldn't want the courts and State institutions and offices closed for lack of funds, would...
...firm belief of the proponents of the plan that its advantages are such that Yale will soon come to adopt the game sort of sports set-up for the future. Until then, in the individual sports, the Harvard all-House teams will be at an advantage over the champion Yale House team and on close to an equal plane with these individual sports in which Yale has no House team, while in the team sports Harvard will be at a disadvantage in meeting the Eli soccer, lacrosse and rugby regular outfits and on the same plane in the others...