Word: infantability
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That was not the first time Roxbury had turned James Conant down. Only an indignant plea by his mother got him admitted as a student in 1906. He had flunked his entrance examination in spelling. No infant prodigy, he did not learn to read until he was seven. But soon after that he was brewing malodorous compounds in a makeshift laboratory labeled: "Only two persons allowable in shop at a time." He insisted on going to Roxbury, against his parents' vote for more fashionable Milton, because it had a friendly science master named Newton Henry Black. Master Black...
...Wife Bacon were in the habit of parking their healthy young son Sandy in a small pen at the edge of the woods while they pursued art. One hot morning a fat rattler came down the mountain "walking to water," slithered into the pen. No more frightened than the infant Hercules, Baby Sandy went on playing until Alex Brook passed by, saw the snake, snatched up his child with one sweep, killed the snake with another...
When the wrinkly little infant who was to be named George Michael Cohan let out his first faint caw, firecrackers were popping in Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will...
...airmail contracts. There was no suggestion that he had done anything wrong while being made a millionaire by a lucky combination of aeronautical engineering, business economics and public enthusiasm. But there was a very definite suggestion that something was wrong when great fortunes could be made out of an infant industry-i.e. aviation- which supposedly would have starved to death without Federal subsidies...
...Thubden Gya-Tsho, temporal ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans (TIME, Jan. 1). After weighty examination of sacred books and relics, astrological signs and portents, the monks had come upon a babe in the outskirts of Lhasa, who had been born the night the old Dalai Lama died. The infant into whose body the spirit of the Dalai Lama had supposedly passed was to be left with his parents until he could toddle. After that the monks would take him into Lhasa, educate him to take office at the age of 18. Meanwhile a regency will be administered...