Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hooton said that with marriages between tall men and short women the offspring would eventually turn out to be the average of their parent's heights although at first you might get some children, for example, "rather on the short side...
...years following, more than 4,000 undergraduates in addition to graduate thesis-writers and visiting researchers had to draw their books from Widener Library. With its closed stacks and complicated card files, the parent library could distribute texts in only two ways--through its regular book desk, or through the reference desk in its main reading room. Frustrated undergraduates would wait endlessly only to discover that the books they needed to read for an exam were unavailable...
...pure soul, about to retire. The other, Colby Simpkins, is a frustrated musician, whom Sir Claude believes to be his illegitimate son. Simpkins feels that his music exits in an unreal world as long as Sir Claude is his father; his life belongs in finance, with his parent. Yet, strangely enough, finance also seems like fantasy to him, and for a while, he feels that every man is given one vocation from his parents and one from God alone. In the final act, as Simpkins assumes the role of the Christ-symbol, he finds that his real father...
...represents the love, affection and security . . . for which they have an insatiable craving." At the opposite end of the spectrum are compulsive spenders, who may become sick if they are forced to save or stop spending. Many of these, says Dr. Kaufman, were overprotected in childhood by an overindulgent parent who guiltily substituted money gifts for the boon of love. Usually one parent was strict, but the other overcompensated for his severity. Other compulsive spenders, who had neither money nor love in childhood, spend selfishly as adults to give themselves a substitute for love...
...next hundred years or so, the names of various Harvard and Yale alumni appear in the list of the university's presidents. But the bonds between the parent Big Three and Columbia are more than mere blood ties. With the coming of the present century, Columbia joined its elders as a university truly cosmopolitan in composition as well as in outlook...