Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This outline of the facts of his mother's life was penned by President Truman ten weeks ago. Afraid then that she was dying, he was speeding to Grandview on the presidential plane. There was more to remember...
Illinois' Governor Dwight H. Green, interrupting a vacation to visit the scene, reported that all state mine-safety laws had been complied with. John L. Lewis, interrupting a visit to his mother in Springfield, Ill., was greeted at Old Ben's tipple by his younger brother, 54-year-old, publicity-shy Howard Lewis.* Underground superintendent for No. 8, Howard had luckily not been below when the blast occurred...
Founding Father. The workers in Mexico, the speaker in Central Park, and many another who marked the day, remembered that Bolívar was the liberator of four countries: his native Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, an area ten times the size of mother Spain; that he founded a fifth, Bolivia, once known as Upper Peru. They forgot his fatal quarrels with associates...
...rational animal's sex practices are learned. . . . Catholics have much to learn from Freudians regarding sex development and the capital importance of early sexual experiences. . . . Indeed, Freudians can teach much regarding the entire role of family figures in the upbringing of a child, regarding the ideal father, mother, brother and sister relationships. They have studied these matters intensely, whereas far too much of our ascetical literature echoes the monastic viewpoint of life in the religious community...
...largest percentage of U.S. geniuses was born in Massachusetts, in January (poorest genius-producing month: June), and inherited their talents equally from their fathers & mothers. The average genius sprang from a large brood (7.51 children) and from mature parents: father was 34.8 when the genius was born, mother...