Word: parented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the world. Calvert got into the business back in 1897, when all its own pupils were quarantined in their homes by a whooping-cough epidemic. Since then,, mothers all over the world have switched to Calvert. Its courses, complete with textbooks, paper, pencils, pictures and prints-and parent-proof instructions on how to teach, tell stories, deal with disobedience and sex problems-have inched up the Yangtse, been carried on native backs through jungles, been dropped by parachute over snow-covered wastelands...
...parent of a feeble-minded child, I feel that euthanasia [TIME, June 30] should be extended legally to cover feeble-minded and hopelessly malformed children. . . . The cretins and mongoloids should not be burdened with life...
...fond parent, he is making a place for his two sons. When John Dabney, 25, who finished Yale last month, showed interest in publishing, Murchison bought into Henry Holt, made John Dabney a director. For John Dabney and Clint Jr., 23, who graduates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September, Murchison also bought two insurance companies...
Lost in a Spelling Bee. Not everybody joined in the fun. Among those who didn't were parents who discovered that fourth-graders could not hold their own in a spelling bee. Miss Seeds's frame schoolhouse became more of an embattled blockhouse than an ivory tower. One parent complained that her child could not even read her grandma's handwriting. "Who can?" retorted Miss Seeds...
...years ago an irate parent got elected to the Los Angeles school board and soon persuaded the board to oust Miss Seeds from her city-owned buildings. But other parents rallied to Miss Seeds's support. When left-wingers gave Miss Seeds some unsought backing, she found herself before California's Legislative Committee on un-American Activities. Chairman Jack Tenney asked her to explain her classroom approach to Russia. Miss Seeds said that her pupils studied Russian costumes, homes and farming. "You mean collective farming?" asked Chairman Tenney. Replied Miss Seeds: "That's all they have...