Word: infantability
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Founder Wright was an infant prodigy. Born in Massachusetts, he was reciting Greek and Latin to Williams College professors before he was ten. When his father took him west to keep the books of The Prairie Store, young Wright spent his spare time taking Chicago's first census, publishing the first lithographed map of the little town. He lost his first fortune (in the panic of 1837) when he was 22, started Prairie Farmer on a shoestring...
...professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College. Creator of an intelligence test that bears his name. Dr. Thorndike has made studies of the "goodness of living" in U. S. cities, based on such factors as per capita value of schools, libraries, parks, percentage of home owners, infant and general death rates (TIME...
When Charles Einfeld, Harry Brand and Russell Birdwell uttered their first infant cries, little did their mothers realize the distance those childish voices would one day reach. For Charlie, Harry and Russell have since grown into the foremost trumpeters of Hollywood's bizarre and boisterous activities. They are publicity men. It is their job to keep the world aware of movies, beglamored about movie stars, and thus herd in admissions to the box office...
...people who asked what was the use of newly discovered facts, Benjamin Franklin used to say, "What is the use of an infant?" The great Michael Faraday of England repeated the crack (with due credit) while lecturing on chlorine...
France and Italy no longer export vermouth to the U. S. Result: a tremendous boost to the U. S.'s infant vermouth industry. From a production of 164,747 gallons for the year ended June 30, 1937, domestic vermouth output has been trebled this year. With stocks approaching the vanishing point, Californians and New Yorkers have had a $2,000,000-a-year business dumped in their laps...