Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Iowa 17 years ago started a movement for them. Its legislature realized that maternity and infant mortality was far greater than need be, passed a law permitting counties to levy taxes for county hospitals. Since then 16 other states have followed this excellent example...
...infant, Henry could toddle about only with difficulty because he was badly club-footed and on his left foot he had only one toe, the great. His right foot had no toes at all. But at the ankle there was a movable, thumblike protuberance. This, as he grew older, he used effectively for washing himself, brushing his teeth and sometimes writing and drawing. Later he learned to grasp objects between his cheek and shoulder, thereby to open doors, hold a pencil or a stick with which he would strike the keys of a typewriter...
...Story. Courtship, for Mary, began in the cradle. At four months she made her first conquest. Henry VIII sought her tiny hand for his infant Prince. But England was Scotland's hereditary foe; France the friend of her traditions and of the religion of the Scottish court. Mary's betrothal to the French Dauphin (Francis...
...many city playgrounds was cited as a contributing cause for the decline. The great numbers of new country clubs might have been cited as another cause, taking ball-players from the sandlots to the golf links not only as players but as caddies. With prosperity have come automobiles, wherein infant Sislers, Lajoies, Heinie Zims tour the block instead of the bases...
...been made even more harassing by the persistence of news-writers. Since the Moscow chess tournament TIME, Dec. 7) the market for chess news has developed rapidly. In particular the persistent writers wanted to know "Why?" Why had Capablanca-born with chess strategy "engraved by dry point upon his infant brain"-been defeated by two Russian "unknowns"? He who had declared "Chess-it is too simple" -why had he been driven to a draw by Lasker and two others? Why had he finished third in the tourney ? At first the master made no explanation, but gradually-as the passport became...