Word: infantability
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When the Government Printing Office gets a request for "the book," with 20?^ enclosed, its clerks know just what is meant. Out goes another copy of the Children's Bureau booklet, Infant Care. Last week, this Government super-seller (more than 28 million copies sold) went into a new edition, its ninth since 1914. The new edition reverses a lot of the advice in the first...
...late as 1945, Infant Care expressed fear that babies might smother in their cribs. Now it notes that this is most unusual: sudden deaths are generally the result of a runaway infection...
...hammering away at Labor's timid foreign policy, quickly switched to "bread and butter politics." They attacked high prices, small rations of butter and meat and Labor's failure to build enough houses to replace those destroyed in World War II. New Tory posters appeared showing an infant grumbling, "The way things are, I shall be grown up before I get my house...
...stern-faced men gathered in the parsonage of Abraham Pierson in Branford. Connecticut and each tossed some books on a table as their contribution to the founding of a college. These men were all ministers who outraged at Harvard's unenthusiastic attitude toward such Calvinistic doctrines as infant damnation and predestination, had decided to establish a rival institution. All but one of the ton were Harvard graduates...
...people were gathered around the altar that Father Feeney and his friends had set up. The altar consisted of a platform large enough for one man to stand on, with a vividly-colored picture of the Virgin Mary set on top of it. A small green statue of the infant Jesus rested on a shelf beside the speaker...