Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bristow, now assistant manager of a farmer's cooperative, hailed from a nearby Virginia county. Ignoring that circumstance, the judges decided on Hunter Roy in record time. After figuring that the $500 would finish the payments on his tractor, Star Farmer Greenlaw hurried back to work. His proud mother fretted: "That boy sure will work himself to death...
From Breclav, now the German Lundenberg, 204 Jews were expelled by Austrian Nazis fortnight ago. For a few days, food was sent from Sudeten towns. Then a desperate Jewish mother smuggled her six- month-old child back into Breclav and the Germans cut off all food. "We are lying beneath hedges," a Jewish mother, big with child wrote to Prague. "We have no money and our only clothing is what we were wearing when we were expelled...
...Mother India is too poor for radio. In the whole peninsula no sets are manufactured, and imported receivers are subject to heavy duties. But India's ryot (farmer) needs radio. He gets news only from bazaar gossip on market days, loses even that source when impassable roads through the four-month rainy season keep him home. So for three years All-India Radio (controlled by the Indian Government) has been trying to figure out a broadcasting scheme to enlighten rural India...
Editor of Jack and Jill is peppy, dark, bob-haired Ada Campbell Rose, mother of two-Donald, 11, Malcolm, 4. Colorado-born, graduating from Northwestern in 1923, she got a job with the Chicago firm of Scott, Foresman, textbook publishers, spent three years learning what children like to read. Wife of Donald G. Rose, Department of Agriculture agent, who she says "is not the least bit literary," Editor Rose is daughter-in-law of Philip Sheridan Rose, editor of Curtis' Country Gentle...
Onetime Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University, Dr. Darwin, 50, has been Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, since 1936. In 1931 he compared physics to "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." Physics has given birth to several other children since then, and Physicist Darwin will try to deal with them all, since research in pure science as well as industrial work goes on at N.P.L. He will move into the palace with a wife and five real...