Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Morgenthau Jr., son of the famed War-time U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. With pencils poised they requested intimate news of Henry Morgenthau Sr., now circling the globe and known to be somewhere in the Near East. Would young Mr. Morgenthau vouchsafe a few words anent his distinguished parent? Speedily the pencils began to race as Morgenthau Jr. spoke...
...Gennadeion looks down on the Acropolis. The child towers above the parent. The new library for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is practically completed. Designed by an American architect, the marble edifice is a true descendant of that classical school in the midst of whose ruins it stands like a spectre from the past...
...issue of TIME, on p. 27, you tell about a sick child in Montevideo and say "It died." Now a child is either a "he" or a "she" and any parent will agree with me that nothing raises said parent's ire like having his child called an "it." If you do not know the sex of a child when relating an incident, it would be perfectly permissible to repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very...
HILDA YOUNT ERTEL Williamsport, Pa. TIME regrets that the use of "it" should injure the feelings of a parent. Webster's International Dictionary seems to furnish plenty of authority when it says: "It is now used only of an inanimate object or of an animate one in which sex is disregarded...
...CRIMSON in its editorial on Monday, November 30 is false. I certainly fail to see, in the academic relations between athletics and scholarship, that the last name has in any way come off second best. The statement that "the lusty infant (football)" has become stronger than its "parent" (the college), is absurd. It is well known that the scholastic requirements within the college itself, and the requirements towards entering college have been increased tremendously in the last six years. The so-called "President's" agreement between Harvard Yale and Princeton has been a further check on the feared ascendancy...