Word: adults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is only Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), a kindly, bungling old carnival seer. But the resourceful Professor has a bit of homely chicanery for each of his applicants, gives them all what they desire. No children's tale is Hollywood's Wizard of Oz. Lavish in sets, adult in humor, it is a Broadway spectacle translated into make-believe. Most of its entertainment comes from the polished work (aided by Jack Dawn's expert makeup) of seasoned Troupers Lahr, Bolger and Haley...
...born in the U. S. every year, was probably doomed to imbecility or death. Water pressure from the interior of her brain, he said, would squeeze the baby's grey matter against her soft skull bones until her head became even larger than the head of a normal adult...
...lawn. Mary Ellen asked if there were fireflies in Seattle. Mr. Haas said no. Mary Ellen was grieved. She caught 40 of the little creatures, sent them out to Mr. Haas's fireflyless home town. But they all died on the way or shortly after arrival. Concluding that adult insects could not be colonized,* Mary Ellen arranged to have 600 larvae shipped to Seattle, to mature after reaching there. It was from these larvae that the 200 first-hatched insects flew out of their box in the arboretum last week...
...Children should be allowed to dress and wash themselves, even though they cannot do it well or quickly. "The useless assistance given to the child is the first root of all repressions and hence the most perilous injury the adult individual can do to the child. . . . The adult must help the child, but help him in such a way that he may act for himself...
...Bengal gram (legume), fresh raw carrots and cabbage, unboiled whole milk, a small ration of raw meat with bones once a week. . . . During two and a quarter years [about 70 years for human beings] there was no illness among these rats, no deaths from natural causes occurred in the adult stock, and there was no infant mortality...