Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was screaming. In a moment oil field workers shut off the pumps under their derricks and came running toward the pile. Fathers and mothers, 100 of whom had been attending a meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association in the school gymnasium, rushed up white-faced. From the shining school buses lined up to take them home tumbled scores of scared kindergarten moppets to help dig under the debris from which appalling screams and cries could be heard. Slowly the diggers realized the extent of the tragedy as they found they had stretched, at the first count, 220 corpses...
...gravitational pull it drew out a long filament of hot matter which subsequently broke up and condensed to form the planets. The energy of motion which enabled the planets to assume orbits of revolution around the sun originated in the sidewise pull of the wandering star on the parent filament...
...other side. Therefore the doubling of the Nova Herculis lines indicated motions both toward Earth and away from Earth. Belorizky now takes this to mean that the cloud of gas around the star is rotating. If the cloud broke up into condensing masses, they would continue revolving around the parent star as planets...
...companies. There is a short blackout which permits Will Rogers to drawl his celebrated mot: "A holding company is where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you." There are scenes in which consumers vainly protest their light bills, farmers vainly beg for electric service, a parent explains to his little daughter that the Government would be inefficient if it tried to supply electricity. The little daughter, observing that the people trust the Government to run the post office, concludes: "The people are awfully drunk...
...Museum, write, wait for the comfortable inheritance which would come to him when his father died. All Butler's books were published at his own expense, and only one (Erewhon) made money. All of them annoyed or offended his father, but Butler was careful not to plague his parent to the point of disinheriting...