Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced into multiple wifehood with the sole purpose of producing more children to become more chattels of this totally lawless enterprise." Possibly the Governor was thoroughly astounded by the fact that a three year old Short Creek boy was the great-great-grand-uncle of a three year old neighbor. Whether or not the tots liked the idea, the women were certainly happy. When informed that they were to live with only their legal husbands, seventy-five of them fled to Utah. Apparently they hoped that Governor Bracken Lee would refuse extradition, but Utah is no longer a haven...
Dramatic Specter. The first requirement of education for privacy is "to learn how to think-not out loud or in print, but privately. The thinker himself, not his neighbor, is to be the beneficiary ... To possess one's soul in an intellectual sense means to have found some answer, or partial answer, to the questions: What is the nature of this world . . . what is my place in it, and what must be my attitude toward...
This is twice as old as the proved age of his next-door neighbor, the primitive man from Folsom. Said Anthropologist Hibben: "This is not geological guesswork. It's an exact, mathematical method of dating. A great many skeptics did not believe man existed in the New World prior to 10,000 years ago. We now have incontrovertible proof...
Lectures on Leave. The son of an Episcopal minister, Forbes started his first museum in his own attic in Stamford, Conn., often trotted over to ask the advice of his famed neighbor, Naturalist William T. Hornaday. He studied zoology and ornithology at the State University of Iowa and Bowdoin College, later became curator of a special natural history collection in Stamford. While serving as an Army Air Corps sergeant in Alabama, he carried on his work. On days off, he managed to raise enough money for a museum in Geneva, Ala., spent his leaves lecturing and showing movies in schools...
...bound to happen sometime during the Christmas recess. Some parent, uncle, neighbor of friend in a worried voice, is going to ask just about every undergraduate: "Say, what's up with those Reds at your College?" His exact wording will vary with the care with which he reads the papers, but the attitude will be the same: honest concern over what the papers call the "mess" at Harvard, and the same kind of concern he felt last fall about the "mess" in Washington...