Word: adults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now the Japanese have their own peculiar understanding. One local group wanted to put police at the adult school door to keep out Communists, "as Communists would disturb free discussion." In Kyoto's Kitano Junior High, Correspondent Welles heard the following discussion among adults...
...larval period (which lasts through the winter) and in spring when the pupa has emerged from the cocoon, no urinary wastes are excreted. Instead, embryonic mud daubers produce uric acid pellets which are stored in an organ called the "fat body." Only after the adult wasp has started to eat its way out of its mud cell are the uric acid pellets excreted...
Paraguay's 300,000-odd adult males found time on Easter Sunday to go through the motions of electing a President. To no one's surprise, they plumped for Felipe Molas López, the 49-year-old dentist who has run the government since Feb. 26, when he seized power in Paraguay's sixth coup in 13 months. There was no other candidate. In the preceding week, Molas López received a much more significant endorsement. Following the lead of several of Paraguay's neighbors, six countries, including the U.S., formally recognized...
...Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council yesterday received a special George Foster Peabody Award for its work in adult education through broadcasting. Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, made the presentation...
...institute was organized in the spring of 1946, when the president of Lowell Institute in Boston met with the presidents of Harvard and other colleges in the metropolitan area to discuss the use of commercial broadcasting facilities for an experiment in adult education...