Word: parent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negroes who pass are seldom detected; there are no telltale Negroid features that a generous mixture of Caucasian genes will not erase. Anthropologists and geneticists pooh-pooh the bugaboo of an atavistic black baby. If one of the parents is pure white, the baby cannot be darker than the darker parent; if both have Negro blood, the baby may be slightly darker than its parents but the chances are against...
...right to a 45-hour week. (Teachers, he says, average 70 hours on classroom work, pupil and parent guidance, grading papers, leading community activities...
...Goes My Love (Skirball-Manning, Universal), based on Hiram Percy Maxim's reminiscences of his inventor parent (A Genius in the Family), is a sort of utility-grade Life with Father, told chiefly in terms of what it does to Mother. Time & place: Brooklyn, in its mansard-capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying...
...over a hundred years it has been customary for each textile mill to specialize in a single process only. One mill would spin, another weave, etc. But when Little established Textron's parent company (Special Yarns Corp.) on $10,000 capital in 1923, he had different ideas. He believed that in textile making all stages of manufacture, from yarn to consumer, should be under one management...
Chubby, chipper Jacques Duclos, one-time pastry cook, is Secretary General of the French Communists; he is also a sort of unofficial foster parent for national Communist parties outside of Russia. Last year, in the French Communist organ Les Cahiers du Communisme, he administered a polemical spanking that unseated U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder. Last week he turned his admonitory attention to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...