Word: infantability
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...trails of the pioneers--the Santa Fe, the Oregon, and the California Trails all began at Independence, just at the lazy turn the Mississippi. But now it was crossed by grimmer tracks. The Freesoilers and the Slavers were pouring in, boding no good for the future of this infant state. Only a spark was needed...
...Eastman Kodak Co. got scared. Low and uncertain were its supplies of methanol (wood alcohol), indispensable solvent of the cellulose nitrate from which photographic film was made. When peace came, Eastman set about making its wood alcohol supply secure. In doing so, it unwittingly became a pioneer in the infant field of U. S. plastics...
...Most infant prodigies are unusually terrible children who have an unusual faculty for aping their elders. Few ever graduate from the ape stage. Few ever hold the concert platform after their apishness has outgrown its disarming garb of knee britches and Dutch cuts. But once or twice in a generation appears a youngster who does his own musical thinking, can hold his own in the company of talented grownups. Such a precocity usually causes a sensation, even among hard-boiled critics...
...phants, Les Abeilles Piquantes, Berceuse, showed a style reminiscent of such advanced composers as Ravel and Stravinsky. All were as deftly and strongly constructed as by a master builder. When he had finished, Manhattan critics, groping for comparisons, could find only one similar instance in musical history: famed Infant Prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who started composing at the age of five. Even then, they had to admit that Prodigy Mathieu had beaten Prodigy Mozart's trifling early tinklings by a year...
Another Terrible Infant of the Dominions also acted up. South Africa's former Prime Minister and present Opposition Leader General J. B. M. Hertzog, who plugs for independence from Britain and who is an even bitterer rival of Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts than Mitchell Hepburn is of Mackenzie King, introduced a motion before the Legislature in Cape Town: "Resolved, That this House is of the opinion that the time has come for the state of war against Germany to be ended and for peace to be restored." Voting on the resolution was postponed until this week...