Word: adulthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools to collect the youngsters' pennies, has 1,000,000 children's accounts totaling $25 million. Other banks are learning the same lesson. New York's Dollar Savings Bank has discovered that juvenile savers not only increase its immediate funds but that 75% of them keep their accounts into adulthood. Every banker is doing his best to attract savings from U.S. women, even go so far as to hire home economists to give household financial advice in an effort to attract the housewife's savings dollar. Beyond that, bankers, who once contented themselves with all- purpose savings accounts, are luring...
...been reserved only for parents' with children under ten. This week, with the publication of Youth: the Years from Ten to Sixteen (Harper; $5.95), Dr. Gesell and his chief collaborators, Frances L. Ilg and Louise Bates Ames, bring the young American through adolescence to the brink of adulthood...
...Students study the major problems of their time, e.g., the Atomic Revolution, modern man's political loyalties, bring to bear on them all that they have learned before. Essentially, says Dickey, this is "applied liberal arts, an effort to give our men a transition between the classroom and adulthood. A man spends four years with a book; after that he is inclined to rely on periodicals and newspapers for his information. There is entirely too little effort in undergraduate experience to relate the liberal arts to what a fellow lives with when...
Roomates and section men, parents and Radcliffe girls, all will come up for analysis in "Social Relations 183." "Developmental Trends in Personality" studies the way a personality should grow during adolescence and young adulthood, and why it often doesn't grow as it should. Seats in Emerson 211 will double as psychiatrist's couches for the occasion...
...veterinarian and six assistants treat the dogs with antibiotics whenever infection threatens. By the time the man with the needle comes round to give them their radioactive injection, they have much that is pleasant to remember. Says Dr. John Z. Bowers, head of Beagleville: "These pups grow to adulthood under conditions far better than most beagles enjoy. And who can tell how many human lives are saved every time one of them dies...