Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should therefore interest you to know that this illegitimate child of yours came of educational age this week, hit the headlines in Boston papers by presenting Democratic ex-Governor Ely of Massachusetts, Communist Earl Browder, and Fascist Lawrence Dennis in this Republican bailiwick debating "What lies ahead for Capitalism." Twenty-five hundred packed the hall built for 1,500; hundreds were turned away; people came from all over the metropolitan area and from points as distant as Concord, N. H. and Providence, R. I. The air was charged, the argument occasionally abusive, but no blood was spilt...
...children-from the big cities as possible. Canvassing the countryside recently have been corps of civilian-defense workers taking notes on how many city dwellers could be housed in Britain's farms and country estates. The Government will pay $2.50 a week for board and room for each child. Some owners of the stately homes of England have lately intimated that they were not anxious to have slum children on their properties. A national advisory association for taxpayers has urged its members: "Think of the dangers-dirt, disease, theft, vandalism, immorality and strife!" But Minister of Health Walter...
Last week another experiment aptly illustrating the frustration-aggression theory was reported in the Harvard Educational Review by University of Iowa's famed Psychologist Kurt Lewin. In the University's Child Welfare Station, research workers formed two clubs of boys & girls about ten years old, set them to work making masks. One was a "democratic" group, with an adult leader who let the youngsters decide how to work, the other "autocratic," with a leader who gave orders and criticism without reasons. Observers' findings...
...autocracy the group ganged up on one child, treated him so badly that he dropped out of the club. Thereupon the club began to bully another "scapegoat...
...comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long Scribner's article about the problem of the unruly child to the two words 'Hit him.' " The most polished baiter of TIMEstyle extant, he includes A Guide to the Pronunciation of Words in TIME...