Word: infantability
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Fighting her profound poverty, Chile has developed the greatest social-security program in Latin America. But it is a constant, obsessing battle to keep help in the running with need. In 1939 Chile had the highest infant mortality rate in the world (250 out of 1,000 live births), a death rate twice that...
Intelligent control of births will save thousands of lives yearly, which in itself should be enough to its name. Even with the great medical advance of the past hundred years still this State has an infant death rate of 40 per 1000 births. This figure and countless inherited diseases could be cut down if blind politicians would reject their medieval views and let medical progress benefit all of the people. Innocent people do not make a strong democracy, nor does democracy grow in the dark...
Luckless Lover. Hugo's father was one of Napoleon's generals. Victor's infancy was full of the clash of swords. But the infant Hugo was not impressed by Bonaparte. Under the influence of his strong-willed mother, who despised her warrior husband, Victor became a Royalist. Father Hugo raged. But Mother Hugo got even by letting the little Hugos romp with their "godfather," her Royalist lover, General La Horie...
...weaving in & out of Marling Hall and stables, records their chatter and well-bred rivalry with a pallid smile. Color is added by a village idiot ("mentally far below even the standard that the BBC sets in its broadcasts to the Forces"); a British governess who has scrubbed the infant faces of half the nobility of England ("there's nothing like the English nursery for making ladies and gentlemen"); a French governess to whom the Britishers speak in their own version of he French language ("J'admeer beaucoup General de Gole, le leader des Free French...
Harvard's first Professor of Milltary Science and Tactics is honored in the new official name of Shannon Hall for the Mil Scl building on Boylston Street. Colonel James A. Shannon was head of the Infant ROTC in the summer of 1917, soon after it had been started by the War Department as one of the first units in the country...