Word: adult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge's National Advisory Commission to the .... Exposition, a school superintendent; a Rotarian, a Kiwanian and a Lion; a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jewish clergyman; an American Legion man and a Daughter of the American Revolution; a clubwoman, a Woman Voter, a Parent-Teacher representative; an adult executive each of the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls...
...revel at another friend's house, Mile. Hastre exhibited its glossy chocolate surface and sugary frosting, caused mouths to water at the thought of sweet liqueurs or sugary stuffing within, caused shrieks of horror when, cracking the shell, she released half a dozen scabrous tropical cockroaches and a vicious, adult scorpion, which immediately plunged, its stinger into her hand. While Mlle. Hastre received medical aid, friends of Mlle. Van Hong Lu loudly denied that she could have connived in the hoax...
...Adult education in the U. S. has been chiefly bread-and-buttery. And "if our friendly critics from other lands and other types of civilization are right (and whether they are right or wrong they are at any rate unanimous), we as a people are very much better at earning a living than we are at living...
...been bread-and-buttery, our adult education has been "pointed"-that is, missionary. Not that adult education should avoid controversial subjects; but it is not at its best when effecting even "Americanization...
...fastest aeronaut. Much like a bumblebee in size, color and form, Cephenemyia begins life as a larval parasite in the nasal passages or other head cavities of deer, cattle and other ruminants. To find suitable host animals and catch them and get into their noses and out again, the adult flies must range immense tracts of country at terrific speed. To the human eye, their passing is "of such incredible swiftness that one is utterly unable to initiate any movement whatever toward capture" before they vanish from sight. "Form is not sensed by the eye as they pass, but merely...