Word: adult
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ammo of the anti-fly movement is good new DDT, which will be sprayed on cattle, barns, downtown restaurants, garbage pails, old-fashioned outhouses. But the state authorities warn that DDT alone will not make Iowa flyless. Flies breed in any sort of decaying organic matter. Eggs hatch and adult flies develop in about eight days. DDT will kill flies, but only strict sanitation will keep the fly reserves from mounting a counteroffensive...
...friends of hers invited other campus wives to get together for picnics and "homemaking" sessions. By fall the idea had spread so far that the wives had to hold a mass meeting in a college ballroom to elect officers. The college detailed a woman professor and the director of adult education extension to help...
...effort took her last breath, and as she died Lady Tichborne uttered a great curse. Unless each year, on Lady Day, the Tichbornes gave to every adult in the village one gallon of flour, and to every child one half-gallon, the manor house would crumble; there would be a generation of seven sons, a generation of seven daughters, and then the Tichborne name would...
...began adult life as a barrister, quit (to write light verse and opera) after he inherited a small income-and after a female thief he was unsuccessfully defending whipped off one of her boots in court, and aimed it at his head. The law and its devotees became one of his favorite butts-as witness the court usher's song in Trial by Jury...
...Author Wylie's wilder notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense" will he experience true "illumination," "inward experience...