Word: parent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...income for the parent company, Mr. Behn reported, was $1,284,184 last year v. a deficit of $1,021,537 in 1942; on a consolidated basis it was $5,528,939 - a cool two and a half times the previous year, and the highest since booming, peaceful 1937. Yet the consolidated figures not only excluded I. T. & T.'s European manufacturing subsidiaries (representing 16.6% of its total investments) and its Spanish telephone properties (22.5%), but also its two-thirds share in the net income of American Cable & Radio Corp., which earned...
...later years attempted serious painting and sculpture, never really learned linear perspective. She copyrighted her epicene homunculus in 1909, after first seeing its teardrop-headed form in a dream. Pirated the world over, the "Kewpie Doll" sold more than 5,000,000 copies, brought its twice-married parent more than...
...scholar shall go into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge to eat and drink there, unless in the presence of his parent or guardian, without leave from the President, a professor, or a tutor ..." under pain of a 50 cent fine, thus spake the Harvard Laws of 1816, which are now being shown with other examples of student life and the regulation thereof in the basement display room of Widener...
...Anzio beach, dropped its big radio-controlled rocket bomb, started to guide it toward the Allied supply ships below. The ships tossed up a fountain of flak, trying to explode the projectile. Suddenly the bomb slowed in midair, twisted into a crazy loop, started straight back toward its parent plane...
...cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before going to bed, and "Here Comes The Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when the approach of June has such static effects upon your behaviour as to cause...