Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judged by the record, the odds against a newborn daily newspaper's surviving infancy are astronomical. In Phoenix, Ariz., those long odds overtook the nation's youngest metropolitan daily, the Arizona Journal. Scant weeks short of its first birthday, the Journal found itself out of print, out of money, heavily in debt, and laid out for burial. About all that kept the infant paper out of the grave was a flicker of outside interest...
...second section of the new Mosaic is devoted to a number of tributes to the famous scholar, Prof. Harry Austryn Wolfson, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. They include a biographical sketch by Richard B. Stone, a review of Prof. Wolfson's scholarly work by a student, Prof. Isadore Twersky, and seven short pieces by faculty friends...
...hired shoulders, there are parties for younger and younger offspring. Says Parties Unlimited's Coordinator Dorothy Hochman: "We try to discourage parents from one-year-old parties, but still they have them. A mother recently wanted to 'do' her 17-month-old child's birthday. I asked if she felt she really ought to. 'I have a very sophisticated ly-month-old baby,' she said, and that was that...
...than the King. Liberty was not won by a conscious effort; it was the product of evolutionary growth. "Men went into Parliament 'to make a figure,' " writes Namier, "and no more dreamt of a seat in the House to benefit humanity than a child dreams of a birthday cake that others may eat it; which is perfectly normal and in no way reprehensible...
...Graduate School of Education's experimental, part-time plan of study for housewives who wish to become teachers has celebrated its first birthday...