Word: children
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child learns by example . . . We surely cannot expect our children to do what we are too lazy and too indifferent to do ourselves...
...Gual Vidal, Minister of Education, made a bone-chilling announcement. "The documents and copper disc inscription," it stated flatly, "are both false . . . Taking into consideration the examination of the human bones [which turned out to be those of five persons, one of them a woman and at least two children], this commission concludes that there are no scientific proofs to permit confirmation that the remains are those of the Emperor Cuauhtemoc...
...once wrote, "is of account only if ... it affords guidance to action." Today, his life is full of action, and it is hard for him to remember "that I am an old man." He remarried at 87 (his first wife died in 1927), and at 89 adopted two more children. In the past ten years he has published three books, is now at work on a fourth. "If it is better to travel than to arrive," he says, "it is because traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep...
...went, but Wright thought something more needed to be added. Said he: "the place of women in the present scheme of things is confused and unstable . . . We must constantly bear in mind, however, that the great majority of women who attend college will marry and have children, and that for most of them their home will be the focus of their lives." Neither women students nor their colleges could ignore the warnings "that the American home is not so satisfactory a place ... as it should...
Divorced. Alexander Crichlow ("Lex") Barker Jr., 30, Manhattan socialite who combined a deadpan acting style and bulging biceps to become the tenth cinema Tarzan; by Constance Thurlow Barker, 32; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...