Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children come from a child clinic in Brookline, which has kept tabs on their physical development since birth. This year eight prematurely born youngsters have been added to the list, with the object of determining if they exhibit certain personality traits differing from normal children...
...author of these stories was a brilliant Irishman born of English parents. Although a high-ranking clergyman, he had no scruples about expressing his opinions in the most vigorous style. He did not like the predatory practices of English land-owners in Ireland. So he penned "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country" in which he calmly unfolded a grotesque scheme whereby delectable one-year-old youngsters be sold for food--to be "Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled." He grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known...
Last week, on his 64th birthday, able, amiable Sewell Avery moved from president to board chairman. Into his place stepped Raymond Henry Fogler, 46, quiet, serious, hard-working vice president in charge of operations, whom Mr. Avery hired away from W. T. Grant Co. in 1932. Born on a Maine farm and educated in a one-room schoolhouse before he went to the University of Maine and Princeton, studious Merchant Fogler has been at Sewell Avery's right hand throughout the Ward renascence. Although Mr. Avery, who has the step and manner of a man of 50, will presumably...
...Holiday, a tall, watery glassful of reminiscences, anecdotes and essays devoted to "persons and places, many of them obscure, about which I have occasionally told my friends over a glass of sherry. . . ." Son of a shirt & blouse manufacturer, Philosopher Edman still lives in the neighborhood where he was born and brought up, a stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life" in Carnegie Hall and art galleries, writes light topical verse, travels much in Europe, wears thick glasses, has a bad stomach, and in general exhibits the intellectual precocity, the urbane humor, the tastes...
...Head '41, of Columbia, Missouri; Frederick W. Heckel 3d '39, of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania; Lawrence B. Heller '40, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Edwin Hewitt '40, of Chicago; William H. Hinton '41, of Putney, Vermont; Sherman Hoar '40, of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Enno R. Hobbing '40, of Reading, Pennsylvania; Garfield H. Born '40, of Elk Grove, California; R. Stuart Hoyt '40, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; William C. Hurtt '40, of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania; Ward MacL. Hussey '40, of Chicago; Humphrey G. Hutchinson '41, of Maryville, Tennessee...