Word: parent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's Daily Maroon, completing a survey of 72 colleges, reported: "The average male undergraduate is badly prepared for his inevitable life in the armed forces of his country." It cited Lieut. General Ben Lear's reply to a Chicago parent who complained that his son, a college graduate, was only a private: "These college-trained young men in most instances have the physical and mental qualities of an officer, but because of lack of military knowledge they must join the greenest recruits...
...saving America from catastrophy, let the anti-Red press give him free publicity in every corner of the country, and then dared any Representative to vote against his super self-publicity stunt. This kind of coercion has worked well for four years-- almost as well as its parent in Berlin...
...Parent-Teacher Council staged a meeting of parents, policemen and schoolmen last week to consider what to do, decided that 1) New Rochelle parents had been too lenient with their children, 2) if their town had better recreational facilities, their youngsters might spend less time in bars and roadhouses. A curfew and parental ban on juvenile driving were proposed but quickly rejected as too hard to enforce. The parents temporized by agreeing to try to make their children come home earlier at night; police promised to shoo minors away from bars...
...Littoria (Italian parent of Lati air line from Rome to Rio de Janeiro...
Knudson's X-rays produce their changes not by affecting the chromosomes, but rather the chloroplasts themselves. Reason: chloroplasts are passed on directly from parent plant to its offspring through the seed or spore instead of arising anew in each generation under the genetic influence of the chromosomes. Knudson worked with fern spores, because they are simple and sexlessly reproductive...