Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food" and wanted to substitute for it bread boiled in beer and honey. Substitutes for mother's milk have been made from cow's milk mixed with soft water, lactose ("sugar of milk") and phosphate of lime. This a vigorous newborn child can assimilate. But the frail bambino must have natural human milk...
...baby was born in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The public that went to see it felt much as Benjamin Franklin did when, to conceal his misgivings, he said to a French balloonist who had urged him to ascend, "Newborn infants are singularly uninteresting...
...Tower of Lies. In any realistic cinema, a newborn child is referred to merely as "another mouth to feed." The mouth, in this grim reproduction of Swedish farm life, is a certain Goldie (Norma Shearer) who buys a farm for her parents with funds obtained from a dubious source. Miss Shearer is fair in both senses of the word; Lon Chaney is the dubious source...
...many speeches, two pronouncements of great weight were made. Mr. Secretary Kellogg's was of immediate importance. He stated the Powers, under the leadership of the U. S., were prepared to go more than halfway in restoring to China her lost sovereignty, in nursing to manhood her newborn sense of nationality...
...make it an international study, thus protecting museums and private owners of the treasures of the past. Whereas the Louvre has been overcautious, for years allowing varnish to darken her priceless paintings, Germany and Holland have gone to the other extreme, scrubbing and revarnishing to a state of startling newborn brilliance. In the U. S., the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard has recently been concerned with this problem. Under Director Edward W. Forbes it has been carrying on a great deal of original research, particularly in the chemistry of paints and pigments...