Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laying of the cornerstone three quarters of a century ago, was a ceremony complete with the presence of the Governor and the National Lancers of Massachusetts. Oliver Wendell Holmes dedicated a new poem to the infant hall, which the crowd sang to the tune of the Russian National Anthem of St. Petersburg. In its description of the scene, the Boston Advertiser wrote rapturously of "Sanders Theatre, of wondrous size, with ambulatory, vomitorium and proscenium not unlike those of classical antiquity...
...Boston elections, the New Boston Committee, infant reform organization, won a majority on both the city council and school committee. On the council, the N.B.C. placed five out of nine candidates, and on the school committee, four out of five...
Closed College was formed in 1718 by a group of clam-diggers and oystermen from Mystic, Conn., who were alarmed at the irresponsible radicalism exhibited by the other colleges of the day. Chief among the earlier contributions to the infant institution was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Closed, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the college in his honor...
...institution of learning which would crystallize amorphous theories of colonial America into a rational pattern of individual conduct. Chief among the early gifts was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Open, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the infant school in his honor...
Lydella does no harm to crops and attacks no insect except the corn borer. The females tenderly place their infant maggots at the entrances of the corn borers' tunnels. Then the maggots, guided by the peculiar genius of their kind, crawl into the tunnels, find the borers and destroy them by devouring their innards...