Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backwardness of Cambridge's public schools [TIME, Feb. 10]. Did it never occur to these highly intelligent men . . . that they could have turned the public schools into a series of Shady Hills? . . . We will have good public schools in Cambridge and everywhere else if or when we adopt the philosophy of the old Vermonter (mentioned by Dorothy Canfield) who said: "What's not good enough for my children's not good enough for anybody's children." MARGARET LEE SOUTHARD Hingham, Mass...
...church & state. Cried Black: "Neither a state nor the Federal Government . . . can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. . . . No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions ... whatever form they may adopt...
Dorothy Schiff Thackrey has plenty of money (about $8 million) and plenty of mother instinct. In 1939 she had enough of both left over, after amply providing for her own three children, to adopt the undernourished little New York Post (1938 loss: about $1,000,000). In five years she had fed it (mainly with columnists) into a fat, sassy brat (1944 profit: $300,000). "And now," she announced last week, "I have another sick baby...
...know. "If the Senate should not accept my amendment," Tydings said with relish, "the Senate would insult every member, Democratic and Republican, of [Aiken's] committee. I cannot see how in the public interest the Senate can now go back on their own child [the reorganization act] and adopt a foster child of somewhat bastard parentage...
...doorknobs off the doors and hinges off the windows." The Russians have learned, said Scott, that "if they are going to carry on this kind of a reparation policy they are going to be politically unpopular-and they are politically unpopular." Now, politically, "they have begun to retreat, to adopt a defensive attitude. They have got to this attitude . . . because of the pressure of internal economic forces in Russia and because of the pressure of a positive American and a positive British policy which have begun to make themselves felt in recent months...