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Word: infant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with both hands tied behind his back by Congress, and left looking like the small boy who takes the bat and ball home because he is not allowed to pitch. Wrote TIME'S Bonn correspondent: "The U.S. is Bonn's godfather; Bonn expects it to lead the infant Federal Republic out into the world. But daily the U.S. seems more lost itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: As Others See Us | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...dangers, feel ready to try it. Their first patient was Gregory Glidden, 13 months, who had an opening between the ventricles of his heart. The donor's blood had to match the baby's, and the doctors decided that his father's was suitable. As the infant lay on one operating table, his father was on another parallel to it. A surgeon tapped the main artery in the father's thigh, led the freshly oxygenated blood to a pump which boosted it on its way to a tube set into an artery in Gregory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Heart for a Heart | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

When Harvard was an infant, its religious critics called it "intolerant"; in its youth they termed it "liberal." When it achieved manhood its nickname became "Unitarian." But middle life and recent history have made "pagan," and "Episcopal and Jewish run" more appropriate...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Religion at Harvard: To Teach or Preach? | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

...England, and got its first large gift from a young minister--John Harvard--in 1638. But liberalism clashed with orthodoxy even at its inception. This time liberalism lost out. The college's first president, Henry Dunster, was forced to resign because of his doubts as to the validity of infant baptism. Cotton Mather, a later president wrote of him, "he fell into the briers of Antipacdobaptism...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: Religion at Harvard: To Teach or Preach? | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

...Advocate, however, leads strongly. In "The Education of Jem" by Peter Pitts, the author characterizes Jem, a somewhat brutish farmer, unable to tolerate the crying of his infant son. While Jem is caressing the child's head in a fatherly fashion, the baby begins to wail and what was gentle fondling becomes a severe enough rubbing to kill the infant. Pitts has the ability to convert the discontinuous ramblings of a man's thought into readable and convincing prose. His first paragraph on the hypnotic effect of a gate scraping back and forth along the ground and, later, the section...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: The Advocate | 4/15/1954 | See Source »

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