Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dismal day. Even the sun balks at smiling on this puppets' college with its box dormitories set up about its crazy-quilt campus, and its infant incubators down by the river. There is symbolism in those twin chimneys of the capitalist power plant. Some day they will fall through the feeding troughs of Smith Halls as through egg-powder, and with them this whole idea-starved society will come crashing to the ground...
...made the circus. Later, when a baby elephant, the first born in captivity, arrived in Bailey's rival camp, Barnum offered $100,000 for the infant, a fact which Bailey so blatantly advertised that Barnum was forced to merge with his rival in self-defense...
Controversy between mothers of the North and South of England as to their respective stamina and speed with the buggies inspired the race. Five mothers entered the lists and took off from the Parliament buildings as Big Ben chimed 5:15 A. M. Three of the infant riders were under a year...
...Geneva, the infant daughter of a dealer in gems swallowed diamonds, rubies, sapphires, worth $4,000, and choked to death...
From the beginning, Dean Briggs was a firm believer in the infant "Annex", -and that at a time when it took courage even to mention higher education for women; when Mount Holyoke was still in rompers, and Smith, Wellesley, and Vasser had hardly passed their teething days. The "Society' for the Collegiate Instructions for Women" has reached maturity and changed its name; and now Radcliffe, in Dean Briggs' words, "shares the Harvard tradition, giving to its students' something that means more and more to them with increasing years- the love of learning and of wisdom of courage and of truth...