Word: infantability
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...believes that all this throws a good deal of light on mental development. Much of what has been considered learning, he thinks, actually has nothing to do with education but is a natural, inevitable process of mental growth, progressing by predetermined stages independently of the environment. Thus, for an infant, he points out, banging invariably comes before poking, nouns before prepositions. And for a premature baby, the art of sleeping and waking, which is controlled by the brain, is developed not through experience but by the growing maturity of the mind...
...Business School report recommends several "badly needed" revisions in the actual law to speed up payment of refunds and to insure that the provisions will not be repealed. Immediate action is necessary, says the report to enable America's infant industries to embark safely on expansion programs. These new plants are considered especially important in that they must provide the employment and investment opportunities necessary for postwar prosperity...
...three girls and a boy were born (weights: 3 Ibs. 8 oz., 2 Ibs. 14 oz., 3 Ibs. 8 oz., 3 Ibs. 5 oz.-more than the Dionnes at first weighing), each was handed to an assistant, who put the infant in an incubator. Mrs. Cirminello, who had been told she would have twins, was surprised. Mr. Cirminello, an SEC analyst, who knew all along it would be quadruplets, was haggard...
Boys have a 25% higher prenatal and infant death rate, a five-year shorter life expectancy. And although more boys than girls are conceived, fewer boys grow to maturity. Result: the U.S. is approaching the European condition of a large surplus of females over males-in 1930 there were 1,125,000 more white men than women in the U.S.; today there are 331,000 more women. Among Negroes, the "relative surplus of women is even larger...
...Britain had already distributed $100,000,000 worth of food and other supplies. It was not enough. To Washington from Rome hurried the Allied Control Commission's Economic Chief, Brigadier General William O'Dwyer. He brought with him some harrowing statistics: Italy's infant mortality was up four times since the last prewar year; her general mortality rate had doubled within a year, her tuberculosis rate had tripled. The average Italian, never a Falstaff. had lost five to ten pounds in weight...