Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informed citizen would at that time have failed to recognize-John Hessin Clarke. Appointed by Woodrow Wilson six years prior, Mr. Clarke had distinguished himself as a liberal Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court by dissenting twice in the decisions by which the Supreme Court invalidated the Child Labor Acts. Of the present Court, only Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds and Brandeis can recall serving with that outspoken rugged individualistic bachelor Justice. Arch-conservative George Sutherland took his place. Everyone knew at the time of his retirement that one of the public causes which Mr. Clarke hoped to serve...
Constant contact with a little child can bring about a wholesome effect in an overanxious household, Dr. Perkins finds. "Attention is distracted from one's own personal problems through the outpouring of interest and affection on behalf of the newcomer . . . and it is by no means an uncommon experience for persons who have been victims of sexual frigidity to discover that the intimate responsibility and care of a little child have aroused a long postponed reaction...
Lest childless couples disbelieve that experience, Dr. Perkins cited another experience "which is frequent enough to be called common." "I refer," wrote Dr. Perkins, "to the stimulating effect upon the nervous centres controlling the reproductive apparatus which is experienced as a result of the proximity of a little child. The maternal instincts, not quite the same as but certainly very closely associated with the reproductive urge, are definitely aroused by this contact. Perhaps the reason why it has not been brought to general notice more forcibly is that the people who have experienced this sensation are a little ashamed...
Anthropologists have long suspected that in Japan twins are born less frequently than among whites. Confirmation has been difficult because Japanese mothers believe that to bear more than one child at a time is a bestial act, frequently try to hide multiple births by separate registry of offspring, even by infanticide. Investigators Taku Komai and Goro Fukuoka of Kyoto Imperial University pierced this veil of obscurantism, sifted hospital figures and midwives' records, found that Japanese twins are indeed scarce: One pair in 160 births, as against one in 87 among U. S. whites...
...roses through the darling simile and bobbing curls of the little tot, "Dimples" differs from the previous parade of Temple screen monopolizations only in the Shirley has an opportunity for real acting in her portrayal of Little Eva's death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Admirers of the wonder child will be pleased with the talent the youngster displays in this sequence, and those who are not so impressed will appreciate the able acting of Frank Morgan as the grandfather, and he anties of Stepin Fotchit...