Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...science explain why statues shed blood, why frogs and periwinkles fall to earth in rainstorms, why eels appear in landlocked water. What about the swan which mysteriously appeared in Central Park after the celebrated Dorothy Arnold mysteriously disappeared? What about the Chippewa Indian who prayed for food for his child, promptly drew milk from his breast...
Twice before this summer had the Toledo Museum pounced on the sort of thing it wants. From a private English collection which had last shown it at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Old Masters in 1904, the Museum acquired Adoration oj the Child, painted about 1495 by Piero di Cosimo for Lorenzo de' Medici. Notable for its luxuriant and microscopic detail and for the figure of the Child asleep. Piero's own idea, that masterpiece was one of the few the Museum could lay its hands on that it considered worthy of hanging with such possessions as Filippo...
...matriculated in 1931 never became successful students. Of the children of the poor, 15% won honor standing, 58% did satisfactory work; of the well-to-do, only 6.5% achieved honors, 42% passed. But only one of 1,600 laborers in the State sends a child to the university, whereas one of 21 financiers is represented...
...Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of The Witness, who rarely wears clericals and once, between parishes, drove a payroll truck in Chicago to support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism, is on record for the Spanish Leftists. Next month when the Episcopal Church holds its triennial General Convention in Cincinnati...
...first to work for Hearst. He has twice been named in Congressional discussions of aviation scandals. And he has whisked from high-paid job to high-paid job with an ease accountable only by his birth. All of which has earned him a fairly general repute as a "problem child." Certainly Elliott Roosevelt's career is a prime example of a problem which very few men have to face-how to live a normal life when your father is President. Last week, having spent five years trying to solve the problem by working for others, 26-year-old Elliott...