Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter had been a diligent pupil from childhood. He was a capable pianist. He had played second violin in his father's orchestra. At 18 a Newark (N. J.) choral society engaged him as conductor. When his father died suddenly, young Walter, a little dazed, assumed all his responsibilities. Railroad accommodations were poor and a hazardous blizzard was raging but under Walter Damrosch the Metropolitan played its scheduled engagement in Chicago. Later in Boston he pacified angry orchestramen who threatened to strike because their passage back to Manhattan was booked on the Fall River steamship line...
...Detroit Institute's own staff, swarthy, hook-nosed Dr. Mehmet Aga-Oglu, a Persian scholar of almost equal authority. A Russian-born Turk, Dr. Oglu probably would never have known the difference between the Timurid School (1390-1480) and the followers of Bichiter the Great if his childhood ambition had not been to become a naval officer...
Lilo Linke was a little German girl of seven when her Fatherland became World Enemy No. i. Her childhood and youth were spent in the nightmare atmosphere of defeat, starvation, revolution. Not because she thinks her personal War history extraordinary but because millions of her generation went through the same painful process, she has written this straightforward report on her dark lexicon of youth. Even Teutophobes will find her account human and moving...
...been "meteorite-conscious" for nearly half a century. In 1885 a farmer named Kimberly and his wife moved to a farm in Kiowa County. They found curious black stones used for weighting haystacks, rain-barrel covers and dugout roofs, for plugging gaps in pigpens. Mrs. Kimberly, who in childhood had been shown a meteorite by a teacher, told her husband what the black stones were. He snorted. Despite his gibes and those of the neighborhood, Mrs. Kimberly started collecting the meteorites. For five years she wrote to scientists, met discouraging skepticism. Finally an optimistic savant arrived, examined the collection with...
...eyeball becomes as big as it ever will when a child is about four years old. "The practical implication of this [is] that defects of vision, which indicate anomaly of growth, must be corrected far earlier in childhood than is customary today...