Word: infantability
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...attempting to arrive through having on the one hand a decent amateur football team and on the other an endowment plan. This endowment plan will in the future mean that Harvard's athletic program will not depend solely on up and down football gate receipts. The plan is an infant now, but an infant with giant possibilities...
...down will be interested to know that the New Hampshire State Planning Commission in a recent bulletin stated that there are now 47 ski-tows in operation, an increase of fifty percent. Furthermore, an Owners' Association of operators has been formed to raise the price of daily tickets. This infant industry has not been making money, and owners complain that with equipment costing up to $2,000 and weekly overhead averaging $140, they are hardly clearing expenses. A take of $250 a week is necessary for a profit of $1,000 over a ten-week season...
Though no longer an infant prodigy, Virovai arrived in Manhattan wearing short pants, immediately changed them for more dignified trousers, of which he is proud as Punch. The thing that completely floored him in Manhattan was automats. He spent hours in one, stuffing slots with nickels and himself with the food that popped...
...Infant Jesus meek and mild Look on me a little child Pity mine and pity me And suffer me to come to thee...
Unlike many famous musicians, Paderewski was no infant prodigy. Though he took piano, violin, cello and even trumpet lessons at an early age, his teachers at the Warsaw Conservatory considered him a promising composer rather than a concert artist. Not until he was 28 did he manage to make his debut in-Paris; even then he knew only enough music to fill one program. Debutant Paderewski had to go back and learn more pieces before he could appear again. But this he did with dogged determination, and soon the musical world began to realize that the composer of the famous...