Word: embryos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FOURTH QUEEN?Isabel Paterson?Boni, Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...
...practical, the putting into practice of their academic knowledge. Their salaries are meagre, generally between $25 and $30 a month besides board, lodging and laundry. Orderlies earn $40 to $60 a month and keep. Nurses get more. But theirs is a trade, whereas the intern is an embryo professional man. He is paying in a way for his educational contracts with skilled physicians and surgeons...
...picture was not received with much approval; on the contrary some of the scenes were greeted by sentiments indicative of an embryo riot. The picture given of Harvard undergraduate life is a thoroughly untrue one, and gives a very false impression of University events...
...baby in her lap as she darned away. She could not tell. For the needle to puncture the infantile skull was easy. At five months the bones of the skull are comparatively soft. They have not yet closed completely, are joined together by tough membrane which in the embryo was the sole case of the brain (TIME, March...
...does not now, for the finest of university graduates, it is important to see the problem and the remedy. The rewards of education, of course, cannot all be reduced to statistics. A professor of English literature will never be paid like the president of a railroad, and no embryo professors ever expect to be. But as long as they can hope to strike no higher average than $3111 after spending $8500 and 20 years in preparation, the great majority of the best of them will continue to turn regretfully to railroads and banks and law offices and brokerage establishments...