Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plays, Paintings, Preserves. The substantial background behind all this hullabaloo was a vast miscellany of activities without which a Fair would not be a Fair. There were countless lectures by Iowa professors, social workers, Farm Bureau Federation executives on interior decoration, weaving, child psychology, farm plumbing, "Childhood Then & Now," "The Farm Woman A World Citizen." And on shelf after shelf, through aisle after aisle were stacked the products that Iowa's women had wrought from their gardens, cook stoves and work baskets. Nine hundred prizes were offered for twelve kinds of bread and rolls, 15 kinds of layer cake...
GOODBYE FOR THE PRESENT-Eleanor Acland-Macmillan ($2.50). A moving little book by an English novelist who compares her own childhood with that of her dead daughter...
...alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light of a single book or a single lecture he is unable to account rationally for beliefs held since childhood should not lead him to discard those beliefs overnight. All too many students have lost their bearings in academic wildernesses because they have heard men with giant intellects treat scornfully ideas which had been believed implicitly...
...Frenchman, Collector Charbneau was born in Mount Clemens 51 years ago, spent his childhood peddling his father's vegetables and acting as bellboy in a local hotel. The autumn of 1898 found him mascot of the Baltimore ball team during the World Series of the 'go's against Boston. Two years later he enlisted in the U. S. Navy, thus made his way to the Paris exposition of 1900. Pride of that exposition was the tallest thing in the world, M. Eiffel's tower. Jules Charbneau's taste ran in the opposite direction. He bought...
More to the point, Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, had considerable contact in her childhood with the teachings of Swedenborg, while attending a New Church Sunday School. Her Science and Health is obviously the garbled result of her acquaintance with Swedenborg, and her utter lack of understanding of his theology...