Word: affections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Adults. Later, she added regular articles on marriage problems and housing ("for they all affect children, too"), children's books (which are pretested on young readers), movies and records. Editor Littledale also keeps a supervisory finger on Parents' byproduct publications: Children's Digest, 21 (for young men), Compact (for girls), Your New Baby and Baby Care Manual (for new mothers...
...November, the Register & Tribune Syndicate expects to start syndicating World Citizen in the U.S. The new strip will not affect Low's political cartoons; he will still draw them. But he is having so much fun with his new venture that his pointed pen has already sketched out a year's supply of Citizen strips...
...poisoning, a medieval disease as old as its proud bridge, so old that it had almost been forgotten. Modern medicine knows about ergot, but has rarely seen it in the form of an epidemic disease.* It is a black fungus that grows on wet grain, contains chemicals that powerfully affect the blood vessels and the nervous system. Doctors often use ergot extracts to start contractions in the uterus in childbirth...
...bridegroom had contracted malaria on a business trip to British Guiana, but no man to be deterred, he dosed himself with quinine (which was permanently to affect his optic nerves), took along a trained nurse and went on his honeymoon anyhow. He has since commented on what has turned out to be a devoted partnership. "My wife has been with me in everything I have done. I'd be very unhappy without her. She keeps me company." Right from the beginning, Lawyer Dulles, who still remembers his early days of 10? breakfasts at the Automat, was a busy...
...fact in Pennsylvania politics is that the Grundy machine, pronounced dead only a year ago, is back in power again. That fact may vitally affect the political fortunes of Ike Eisenhower and Robert Taft...