Word: compound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drifted from one dead-end job to another,' fell in with evil companions, and finally used a gun on a druggist during a holdup. As he awaited sentence, one of his former teachers reflected: 'I was a big help to that boy. I taught him Tennyson and compound verbs...
...implication of the personal responsibility of that teacher (not forgetting Tennyson and compound verbs) for Marty's inevitable end is unmistakable. Also unmistakable is the old technique that underlies such educational flapdoodle." The life-adjusters are "just as confident that a new phrase will solve problems that have plagued society for centuries ... as [their] predecessors ... of 'Education for Life,' 'Character Education,' 'Correlation and Integration,' 'Air-Age Education,' and 'Atomic-Age Education...
Mother: "A Compound fracture...
...took some Vegetable Compound...
...compound became known in every country, selling in China as "Smooth Sea's Pregnancy Womb Birth-Giving Magical 100 Per Cent Effective Water." Perhaps its crowning triumph came in 1944, when an Army chaplain took some snapshots of South Pacific natives just liberated from the Japanese. One picture showed a native woman in front of a thatched jungle hut, surrounded by her possessions-meager indeed, but among them one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the grandmotherly face on the label mild and benign as ever...