Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huntington, W. Va., resolutions were passed against kissing games at children's parties. Endorsed by the Parent-Teachers' Association and the County Medical Association, the resolutions declared that such games "might lead to worse" and are a "very low type of entertainment which for many reasons should be discontinued...
...full significance of such details is not realized until late in political life. Thus the irrevocable fact of birth in New Hampshire has wrecked more than one Presidential aspiration. After a survey of these conditions, Mr. Chappell, writing in Vanity Fair, has deduced the theory that "if a parent really wants his boy to be President, he can make his selection a practical certainty if only he start early and go about it the right...
...graduate pushing a baby carriage containing the present Lampoon board is the conception of Lampy's Graduates' Number of the parent of Life prepared for the celebration tonight at 7.30 in Lampy's Sanctum. Many notable alumni will be present, several of whom have written for the special number...
...Robert T. Hance, of the University of Pennsylvania, told of an improved technique for studying the chromosomes of chicks. All of the hereditary characteristics of animals are transmitted to their offspring through tiny bodies called chromosomes in the two microscopic germ-cells contributed, one by each parent. Research on chromosomes has become very exact; they can be counted, and their various divisions, pairings and combinations recorded...
About 1670 Edward Lloyd kept a coffee house in Tower Street which catered to seafaring men. He decided to start a little 'bulletin called Lloyd's News, parent of the present Lloyd's List, in which he chronicled the goings and comings of sailing craft in the Port of London. This proved an immense success and in 1692 he moved his coffee house to more spacious quarters in Lombard Street and expanded the bulletin to include general information. Parliament became annoyed because Edward Lloyd, so it is said, knew more than it; the paper was suppressed...