Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: The eighth child of Galena's postmaster and chief Republican little-wig, Dewey Short was named for the hero of the contemporary battle of Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer...
...swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found out he had a wife & child...
...problem of using light for spectra more efficiently has goaded skygazers for years. Astronomers at Mt. Wilson and California Institute of Technology were putting their money last week on a device called an "image-slicer," invented by Caltech's quiet, brilliant Ira Sprague Bowen. No bigger than a child's fist, this gadget splits up the blobby image of a star or nebula into a number of thin strips by means of a combination of mirrors which feed each one of the strips through the one-thousandth-inch spectroscope slit. After passing through, these slices of light...
...when he cried in her presence. Sarah had not known that men knew how to cry. She learned other things faster-economics by going hungry, the ways of boys from confidences of schoolmates. Before her father's death she learned her biggest lesson: "When you were a little child you thought your parents could do anything and knew everything. It was when you were growing up that you began to see them as people like other people, more kind, more tender, but not more wise, not always more capable. And because you saw them thus, curiously enough you became...
...child's wonderment at earth...