Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...species of feather-eating lice. Nearly every bird has a few lice, and some have thousands. Benjamin Franklin, the Misses Rothschild and Clay report, regretted the choice of the bald eagle as the emblem of America "as he is generally poor and often very lousy." As soon as infant birds climb out of their eggs, the waiting lice set upon them, chewing their feathers and nibbling their skins. They crawl into the throat pouches of pelicans and cormorants. One species feeds exclusively on the tears of swifts...
...Moscow itself, the most popular foreign films, reported the New York Times, are Tarzan and Tarzan in the West, both of which are carefully presented to audiences with a Soviet explanation: Tarzan was cast ashore in Africa as an infant and raised by apes "without the slightest contact with pernicious bourgeois American or English influences...
...blamed on the common house fly. With a budget of nearly $300,000, a staff of 220 doctors, nurses and helpers and the best insecticides, foundation experts fought for three years to eradicate the house fly in these five villages. By 1950, the campaign had brought great victories ; the infant death rate in the testing areas had dropped from a high of 275 to 375 Per 1,000 to only 105. But gradually the fly developed immunity to the foundation's DDT, chlordane and gammexdane...
...Spitz was doing research at a foundling home in a Latin American country (which he refuses to identify) when he started shooting his film. It was an old, established home, well equipped and, by all material standards, well run. Its 91 infant inmates had plenty of good food, clothing, light and air, and toys. Competent nurses fed and bathed them regularly. Only one thing was lacking: the nurses, each with ten children to care for, were too busy to stop and play with their charges. "Each infant had the equivalent of one-tenth of a mother," said Dr. Spitz...
Turning to consideration of infant sciences, such as the social sciences, Conant said scientific commentators err when they expect pioneers in these fields to apply the same rigorous methods used in physics...