Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond far astray from the observation which he was going to make upon the comparatively recent rise and immense power of the Press. Perhaps no other development of the last century and a half has had so great an effect upon human life in general. It is the parent of that rather nebulous but potent force called Public Opinion; it is the public's lay-Bible...
...Through the natural growth of the science of botany", declares Mr. Hamblin, "gradually the functions of the garden were divided and separated from the parent, in all cases becoming eventually greater departments, through the energy of one or more devoted workers who gained their first inspiration at the Garden. Thus there grew from the seed at the Garden the Summer School, Gray Herbarium, Arnold Aboretum, Botanical Museum, Plant Physiology, and the teaching of botany, all long planted in more favorable locations and now well developed. The purposes now served by these departments were once centered at the Garden, and probably...
...setting, Colleen Moore, wearing a blonde wig, looks like Lillian Gish, enacts a limehouse lily as Dorothy Gish would (TIME, Nov. 8). A peppery toe-dancer, she leaps to the heart of Prizefighter Chuck Lightfoot, who is so severely jabbed that he counters by helping Twinkletoe's rascally parent (Tully Marshall) out of a counterfeit crime, and himself into the hands of the police. Then, a subtitle records the passage of a year and a happy ending. Colleen Moore entertains...
...placed in hollow glass slides and kept in incubators. Every 48 hours the detached tissue cells reproduced themselves, proving as Dr. Alexis Carrel has been doing for almost 15 years with his chicken-heart tissue (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), that cell life can be maintained immortal apart from the parent body. They must, of course, be kept at proper temperature, be given proper nutrition, be kept from bacteria and have the products of their metabolism drained away...
...something different between them, and that did not seem to be very acceptable when I thought of the different kinds of sandwiches and what went between them; I did not like the choice or sandwiches offered. And I felt still differently when I found that they were the parents of this Association, and I was to stand between them, and then I could not help but wonder, which was the father and which was the mother. It was stated that Mr. McCracken was there when the child was born and Mr. Duggan was not, so I now do know which...