Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smelling area of the nose grows most before the child is six months old. In early childhood the middle part of the nose grows most. In later childhood the lower part of the nose unfolds and grows until about adolescence. The faces of most snub-nosed grown-ups simply froze prematurely. Many of them, when children, just lacked proper food to grow...
...regulate its population. Dr. Todd, a tall, angular Yorkshireman whose fondest possession is an original photograph of Charles Darwin, took charge of the Brush Foundation. His first goal, and the purpose of his meticulous measurements of Cleveland children, is to find exactly how a human being grows from childhood to adulthood. When he learns what happens to the body (including brain), he expects to find out precisely how the mind and soul mature...
...background and doesn't interfere seriously with the goings on. She should have been a W. H. Hudson girl-of-the-wilds with hair in the breeze and so forth, but she hasn't quite thrown off her ingenue manners. The deer and the puma are united in early childhood by Miss Parker when she finds them both orphaned. They are brought up together and then set free to roam the Sierras in company. Their ways part but at the strategic moments they meet in time to save each other from various fates at the hands either of other animals...
...Frankie Thomas, gives a good performance, at times top-notch. Hollywood has become so addicted to the success of childhood misfortune lately, however, that it must let Frankie resemble Jackie Cooper for irksome moments. As a result, the picture gives one a sense of frustration which may be the reason we were disappointed...
Maurois admits that Dickens "fled from himself. He fled from the memory of a thwarted emotional life, the memory of a deep love slain in the dawn of youth, the memory of a hateful childhood." But Dickens the Victorian man, he implies, should not cast a shadow over Dickens the victorious writer: he is "above all, a great poet...