Word: infantability
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...Manhattan's Columbus Hospital Extension, 16 years ago, an hour-old infant lay near death. A nurse, later adjudged to have been "tired," had bathed his eyes with the wrong solution of silver nitrate, 50% instead of 1%, which had blinded him, seared his cheeks with deep furrows, and with its fumes caused pneumonia. Though his doctor had given the infant up as hopeless, a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart, which maintained the hospital, obtained the doctor's permission to pin on the babe's clothing a medal of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, founder...
...infant: prodigy entered. The hall became quiet. . . . He looked as though he were nine years old but was really eight and given out for seven.-Thomas Mann, The Infant Prodigy...
When, following the War, the first few scattered bus lines strung short networks along rural roads, trolley cars, interurban electric lines and railroads had already pre-empted the best U. S. transportation routes. Slim indeed seemed the prospects of the infant bus industry. Last year the onetime infant had driven trolleys entirely out of 434 cities, had $690,000,000 worth of equipment, operated 1,389.000 miles of route, carried over 3,000,000,000 passengers, and its 4,780 bus companies had an aggregate income of $467,000,000. Of the 124,000 busses in service...
...inches deep in the lake gravel floor was found the buried skeleton of an infant. The bones were very immature. Beside the skeleton lay a sharp bone 'dagger.' At this level also were found some very small projectile points, possibly dart heads and knives, scrapers and bone awls. . . . There can be no question that these people preceded by several thousand years the earliest Basket Makers...
...cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake. As the water level in the lake sank, millennium after millennium, the caves around it are supposed to have been eaten out by the action of waves at the shore. The cave which yielded up Dr.Steward's fossil infant is now 365 ft. above the lake level. Yet the fact that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated from its mouth. Bits of charcoal showed the inhabitants to be fire makers. Dr. Steward viewed the skeleton...