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Lionel, biggest toy train maker, expects to sell more trains (about $10 million worth) than the whole industry sold in its best prewar year. For grownup buffs, Chicago's Varney Scale Models Inc. invested $50,000 in drawings and dies for a new locomotive model. It has already sold 1,000 kits of parts at $100 each...
...hysteroid person is a show-off as a child, a complainer as a grownup. He (or she) is a "bachelor in marriage," holding firmly to the apron strings of both parents and using ill health as a method of sadistically dominating his family...
...live for the most part separately from the world, coming from seclusion only to perform certain tasks. When Father Sill's broken health forced him to retire, Holy Cross provided Kent with a successor in young, studious Father William Scott Chalmers, but in 1943 decided to hand grownup, self-sufficient Kent over to its trustees. Father Chalmers, by special permission, stayed on as headmaster. Father Chalmers soon discovered the impossibility of fitting his Order's cloistered rules to his job as a busy headmaster. But Kent's trustees, clinging to the school's tradition, were unwilling...
...analysis, Harold himself urged the analyst to publish the record.) Without much hesitation, Harold gave the details of a hair-raising career of gun-toting, stealing, vandalism, fornication. Like all psychopaths, Harold was "a rebel without a cause, a revolutionary without a program," a grownup infant with no self-restraint and a craving for instant satisfactions...
Like measles, which is no laughing matter when a grownup gets it, homesickness among soldiers is a real disease. As Army doctors at Camp Blanding, Fla., who have studied thousands of U.S. patients, describe...