Word: infante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infant prodigy is one of the perennial marvels, despite his comparative frequency. Every year brings a number of precocious children, especially in music, and yet the public remains interested. A phenomenal child can draw attention to subjects most neglected by the populace. There is the game of chess. It is impossible to draw any public interest in chess ordinarily. But when the infant prodigy appeared, little Sammie Reschewsky, the newspapers ran columns about him. This boy, too, is a case to be studied with an eye to the over-pushing of precocious tots. It was reported that in Germany, before...
...consequences. So Guy burgled a local store for the money to send Bee away to her Aunt Grace's in Kansas City and discovered that he wasn't quite such a noble character as he had thought he was. When Bee returned with the consequences ?a red little infant named Cecil? the trouble began. And the scandal and finger-pointing was much increased by the fact that Adrian Plummer, Guy's highly Old Testament father, proclaimed his son's sin from the pulpit and confessed that he, too, had done likewise in his young, irreligious days...
...waved above our infant might...
...disfavor after it was found to have a detrimental effect on babies thus born-is still used regularly in a modified form in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and some other hospitals. Dr. John 0. Polak has used it as a routine procedure in labor, with a resulting infant mortality for 1,000 cases of but 2.5 per cent, about one-fifth of the average for other deliveries. It should, of course, be administered only in hospitals and under specially trained doctors...
...deformed female skull, discovered in a Missouri cave, has been received by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the United States National Museum. The shape was probably produced by bandaging the infant head, which was a common practice among the Aymaras and other South American Indian tribes. Only two such skulls had previously been found in North America...