Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grandmother's. I told young Paula to pack up whatever of her clothes she could find among the wreckage and push off to her grandmother's place at Puddleston by herself and I told Kit to take the nipper to my mother's at Ashmont. She did and I pitched in on the job of cleaning up the wreckage . . . some of the lads from the shop came to give a hand...
...Dispossessed. It was a bit of a tight fit at Mother's. By the time we arrived another sister was there, just bombed out. And two days later another sister landed, bombed out too. They all had kids so you can imagine what it was like in a three-room bungalow. Well, anyway, in a couple of days Kit was right enough again to have the usual wrangle with the usual nasty billeting officer and finally got a billet with, somebody. But next day that person's mother and family, also bombed out, arrived, so the billet...
...marches confidently off to war, only to be ignominiously bounced out of Marine boot camp because of his chronic hay fever. Burning with shame, he thinks of his father, Hinky Dink Truesmith, a hero who died gloriously at Belleau Wood on the day his son was born; of his mother, so proud and radiant, weeping on the station platform; of the brass bands tootling and banners proudly declaiming: "Like father, like...
...Gregory Pincus at Clark University (TIME, March 12, 1934). Dr. Pincus, after fertilizing rabbits' eggs with sperm in glass, planted the resulting cells in a female rabbit's uterus and she bore normal, healthy bunnies.* Other investigators have nursed a monkey's egg, fertilized in its mother's body, to the eight-cell stage in glass. Six years ago Philadelphia's Cancer Specialist Stanley Philip Reimann, by pricking a human ovum with a glass needle, succeeded in stimulating it to an apparent beginning of growth...
...Mother-in-Law. In Flushing, N.Y., Mrs. Susan Elizabeth Lowe left over $20,000 to her three sons, named as the executors her three daughters...