Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infant prodigy who lived to be an octogenarian...
Then there came into the world the 124th descendant in direct line of the Emperor Jimmu Tenno (660 B. C.), founder of the oldest reigning dynasty*the world. Unfortunately the infant thus auspiciously born proved to be a girl Some 70 million disappointed Japanese were comforted by an announcement: "The Princess Nagako continues in robust health, and will personally nurse the granddaughter of the Emperor...
Statistics issued by the Mexican Bureau of Biological Research last week were declared to indicate a higher recorded infant mortality in Mexico City than anywhere else in the world...
Seņor Capablanca was born in Cuba in 1888 with the strategies of knights and pawns apparently engraved by dry point upon his infant brain. He lisped in gambits; at a period when most children are teething, he was teaching his father the Ruy Lopez, and while still a child he became primus of the Habana Chess Club. Only the insistence of a medical man induced him, at the age of eight, to take a holiday and go to school. He went through college, where he interested himself in science, history, art, music, sport. Then he began to play chess...
...fairly widespread observation that the attitude maintained by the CRIMSON in its editorial on Monday, November 30 is false. I certainly fail to see, in the academic relations between athletics and scholarship, that the last name has in any way come off second best. The statement that "the lusty infant (football)" has become stronger than its "parent" (the college), is absurd. It is well known that the scholastic requirements within the college itself, and the requirements towards entering college have been increased tremendously in the last six years. The so-called "President's" agreement between Harvard Yale and Princeton...