Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consider the salmon. He. ranks fourth?next to mackerel, a high-seas fish?and would by this time have been driven from the Atlantic Coast except for artificial propagation. For the salmon must come to life in a trough excavated by his parent in the gravelly bed of a river. Thence he makes his way to the ocean and returns, steel blue, to increase his tribe. If estuaries are foul and filled with commerce, the salmon expires...
...faith of the age is in congresses and mass action. Last week, the National Parent-Teacher Assocition mobilized in Austin, Tex., for its 29th annual congress. Mrs. Drury W. Cooper of Montclair, N. J., national chairman of membership, reported that the Association's roll had reached 875,000. She presented the Louisiana delegation with a banner for increasing its membership 274% in the past year...
Seats. "If the Parent-Teacher Association should do nothing but provide more comfortable seats [hygienic, adjustable] for the school children of the Nation, it would more than justify its existence."-Mrs. B. F. Langivorthy, Winnetka, Ill., the Association's Vice President...
...California properties of "Pan Pete" were not included in the deal; these had previously been segregated from the parent company and will be sold out to its present stockholders as the Pan American Western Petroleum Corporation...
Being one who was present at the birth of TIME, and watched its faltering footsteps at the beginning, I am like a parent, alive to its faults as well as its virtues. It is an extraordinary weekly; and at the end of summer abroad, depending upon it almost exclusively for home news, one returned home, conversant with every subject of importance here, as well as with a good idea of what had been passing under the surface of Europe...