Word: parente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that probably the age of our universe does not differ very much from the age of the solar system, and that not very much more than 3000 million years have elapsed since the spiral nebulae, the stars, and the star-dust (the meteors) were born out of the original parent system, which we call chaos because we do not know much about...
...them that for which the ordinary citizen knows him best-the removal from the lungs of tacks, pins, grains, teeth, bones and other knicknacks. And, although his former students are established with their instruments in all parts of the country, it is to Dr. Jackson himself that many a parent brings the child who is choking on a safety pin or whatnot. But Dr. Jackson is no longer at the Chevalier Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic of the University of Pennsylvania, with its children's rooms decorated like nurseries. Two years ago he resigned to develop a similar clinic for booming...
Have school boards the right to oust lazy or stupid students? Many a tax-paying parent might feel that, having paid his money, he has his rights. Last May this question interested one Jean West, 19, freshman at the Teachers' College of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) which is State-supported. Suspended for failure to maintain a required standing, Miss West sought to restrain Miami University from expelling her. Her counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her case, but a higher court reversed...
When, six months ago, the vice president of American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. arrived from Pittsburgh to be made operating vice president of the parent company, there was little stir in the House of Steel. William A. Irvin (pronounced: Irwin) was given an office down on the 14th floor, far away from the real executive headquarters. He soon and often thereafter returned to Pittsburgh to inspect the noisy mills which are the Corporation's core. When at No. 71 Broadway, he worked hard at the used desk which had been given him. Few of the New York personnel wandered...
...hunger, is denied when they are punished for eating a cookie between meals; then their acquisition instinct is curbed when they are unable to understand that a diamond bracelet is more valuable than a rocking horse. When the sex instinct makes its appearance, it is unhealthily denied by the parent's explaining as my parents explained to me, that no decent person ever had such a thing as sex. Finally when the self-preservation instinct develops, it is fought under when the father punishes the child for scrapping with the boy next door. A baby is nothing but a bundle...