Word: parently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bounced into a meeting of the Parent Teachers Association and told them a family secret: he was conceived in their home state. "When you hear people say that the mayor of New York was a wild man," he cried, "remember that he was started in the Dakotas and brought up in Arizona...
...most progressive steps has been to bring cancer out of the back bedroom into the clinic. But it has been necessary to teach people that cancer is not directly transmitted from parent to child, and can be mentioned in newspaper obituaries without stigma; that it does not stem from alcoholic or sexual excesses; that it is no more contagious than a broken leg; that housewives cannot contract it (as a few seem to believe) by using aluminum cookers or electric refrigerators...
Besides being shown at the museum until mid-July, some of the films will be distributed to 350-odd organizations throughout the U.S.: colleges, Parent-Teacher Associations, clubs, even prisons. The museum program does not include every documentary of first-rate interest. (Notable omissions: all newsreels since 1931; issues of MARCH OF TIME since 1940.) But cinemaddicts who still doubt that the documentary is growing up might do well to paste the following titles in their hats, and to see them-in parish house, college, jail, or Manhattan-if opportunity offers...
...Death Sentence." After ten years, private utilities finally got Section 11 (the "death sentence") of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 before the U.S. Supreme Court. Under the Act, the Securities & Exchange Commission has already divorced 344 subsidiaries (total assets: $4.3 billion) from their parent holding companies. But Wall Streeters have only a slim hope that the Court would kill the death sentence...
Even if you know nothing about camera technique, you may soon be taking clear, indoor snapshots of Junior. The Army Signal Corps has developed a parent-proof camera with built-in sunlight. All you have to do-indoors or outdoors, day or night-is focus on the subject and pull the trigger. The camera does the rest...