Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land with explusion on one side and the easy favors of the tutorial schools in the other. Those who adopt plan B, "modified tutorial instruction", will in all probability find themselves occupying as regards the staff of their department the proverbially embarrassing position of the illegitimate child at the family reunion. In fields where there is no tutorial, all men will still be at least nominally equal, but where two classes exist "B" men will soon have to get accustomed to living in the doghouse. It can be argued that such a student has made his bed and so forth...
...power to declare laws unconstitutional without a two-thirds vote, which requires justices to retire at 70. Said he: "There is no possibility in the Philippines for any court to say that if we pass an act regulating the number of hours of labor or prohibiting the use of child labor, or other measures of this nature, that the court will declare the action of the Legislature unconstitutional...
...famed team of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence met when they were both child-actors in the same company...
...most successful play, was written "straight"-not, as often rumored, "with my tongue in my cheek, in bed, probably wearing a silk dressing-gown and shaking with cynical laughter." Like Coward's plays, Present Indicative strikes many a theatrically effective note of frankness. When he was a child-actor in London he used to steal waitresses' fourpenny tips to eke out his meagre lunches...
...membership had jumped to 205 (peak membership: 300), and the world was cocking an eye at these scandalous "free lovers" who called their goings-on "stirpiculture." Within the Community, eugenically weak males struck at the favoritism shown their betters, got a skim-milk ruling that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet by straight farming, Noyes and his shrewd, God-fearing colleagues turned to canning fruits and vegetables, manufactured the world...