Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...until the President had a mind to go tiger hunting in the East and chanced to read Grew's account of the subject did Grew get his first break in the Service. Any young man who could crawl single-handed into a cave and dispose of a tiger, Teddy Roosevelt decided, deserved promotion. One of Grew's best jobs was done in Germany just before the War, shooting pheasants with the ebullient Kaiser and deftly restraining his own ebullient chief, Ambassador James W. Gerard...
...first two dogs returned briefly to life, died a second and final death. The third dog, which like its predecessors, has been put to death clinically and revived by chemical and mechanical means, did better (TIME, April 30 et seq.). Slowly Dog No. 3 learned to crawl, sit up on its haunches, eat, bark, snap flies. Last week it was eating 12 oz. of meat per day. But it could not stand alone, did not behave like the normal mongrel terrier it had once been. Lean, jet-haired Dr. Robert E. Cornish concluded that a taste of death had irreparably...
...normal baby acts in a variety of situations, uniformly created for each child and for the same child at successive periods. What does a baby do when he is lying on his belly, on his back? How fast does he master the sitting posture, learn to creep, to crawl? What are the exact mechanics of his methods of locomotion? How well, at successive ages, can he stand (with help), climb stairs (with help)? What does he do when tempted by toy "lures" beyond his reach? The cameras ground away, and in the Atlas every movement of hands, arms, legs, feet...
...contains 270 bones, measures just 20½ in. from top to toe. Its stomach holds 1 oz. of food, the capacity increasing to 6 oz. in six months. At 3 weeks its diapers must be changed 13 times a day; at 3 months 20 times. It begins to crawl at 9 months, toddles and babbles words on the first day of its second year. At 3 the child can name keys, knives, pencils and answer correctly whether it is boy or girl. At 6 it can count to 13, distinguish nickels, dimes and quarters...