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Word: childing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the legend of Troy exerts less influence on the imaginations of men in the present day and age than perhaps for many decades, nevertheless the most illiterate school-child is familiar with the fundamentals of the story,--the struggle of the Goddesses for the Golden Apple, its award by Paris to Venus, the faithlessness of Helen to her Greek King-husband Menelaus, and the subsequent war on the windy plains, and ultimate disaster. These are the events told by Homer in lines that for the few who still can taste them in this apostate age are the ultimate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

...school superintendents turned out overstuffed annual reports. Their tons of fat brown volumes, unread even by the teachers, gathered dust in official archives. Two years ago superintendents made two discoveries: 1) a report that the taxpayers liked would serve political uses, 2) everybody likes the picture of a child more than a statistical table. Result was an epidemic of school picture books that by last week had assumed the proportions of a national movement. Latest of these products to roll from the presses was Your Children and Their Schools, "an informal report to the patrons of the Los Angeles City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pedagogs' Pictures | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Born, To Marigold Rosemary Joyce, Countess of Londesborough, 34, and the late Hugo William Cecil Deniscm, Earl of Londesborough who died last April of pneumonia; a daughter; in London. The posthumous child will inherit the Earl's $5,000,000 but not his title, which became extinct for lack of male issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...hormone, and cured them in a few weeks. A few months later Dr. John Huberman of Newark, N. J. and Dr. Howard Harry Israeloff of nearby Irvington, collaborating, gave five children hypodermic injections of amniotin. an extract of the fluids in which unborn children float. They gave a sixth child amniotin by mouth. All six got rid of their gonorrhea in a few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Vaginitis | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...vaginal suppositories. The most resistant cases clear up in at the most six months. The treatment, said Dr. Snow, "produces a temporary maturity of the vaginal mucosa. and occasionally a trifling enlargement of the breasts. But these phenomena subside immediately after the vaginitis is cured and treatment ended. No child has ever suffered harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Vaginitis | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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