Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...junior U. S. Senator from New York, bosom friend of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, returned to the U. S., impressed by European aviation and by Mayor J. J. Walker's tour. Also, he had visited the village of Nastätten in Hesse-Nassau, Germany, where he was born...
...centre of this solemn group was a pinkish-brown princess, recently born to their Imperial Majesties of Japan (TIME, Sept. 19). Her only sister, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya, 21 months, steadied and restrained by a nurse's hand, gazed wonderingly on as the newest Imperial baby, yelping, was put into a ceremonial bath...
...baby was born. Nurse Meyer sang out "Male!" The student aid wrote on a piece of adhesive plaster, "Male, No. 70"; slapped the plaster on the baby's back. In the shake of a dead lamb's tail the baby was on its way to the nursery; in a longer jiffy the mother was trundled towards her hospital bed; and interne and nurses washed their hands, turned around for the next case. Ten minutes later Mrs. Sam Smith's own doctor came, looked at hospital records, genially congratulated Sam Smith on the birth...
There is a quaint belief, conceived in boredom and born out of terrific sophistication, that all Freshman classes are, as a group, alike. The numerals, the names, and the faces change, but the composite similarity is timeless. Fortunately for the world in general and for Harvard College in particular this epigrammatic obituary of the still-born hopes and illusions of youth is quite incorrect. It is assuredly a neat phrase and accompanied by a certain shrug of the shoulders and flick of the ash it assumes the proportions of a social gesture. But it is untrue--gloriously untrue...
...first baseman may wear a glove or mitt of any size, shape or weight. Every other player is restricted to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces and measuring not over 14 inches around the palm." tin the house where President McKinley died was born (20 years earlier) Devereux Milburn...