Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...
Grand old Liberian facts, confirmed by the League: 1) No slave markets exist in Liberia, but forced labor indistinguishable from slavery is used on nearly all Government works, frequently diverted to private works by corrupt officials; 2) Children are "pawned" by their parents to work until the parent's debt is discharged; 3) Contract laborers are shipped to French Congo, Spanish Fernando, "under conditions of criminal compulsion...
...book is written for grownups, but it may embarrass parents as well as bachelors. Many a father may feel as tenderly toward his children as Father Hutchinson writes of Simon, but few would attempt to expose such a feeling in print. Some may even resent Parent Hutchinson's performance. Rebecca West, writing last fortnight in the Outlook & Independent, grew caustic at The Book of Simon's expense, said she was staggered at "the increasing disposition of Englishmen to become mothers." Said she, what will Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about...
When a person of advanced years makes the sacrifice of his time, and what is still more important, of his own money, he is motivated by a strong desire for further knowledge. It is not a question of satisfying the ambitions of a parent or guardian. On the other hand, an alarming percentage of undergraduates clutter halls of learning for no other reason than to preserve a family tradition, or to stave off contact with an office desk for a few more years. Again, the difference between a mature person taking an elementary language course in preparation for next summer...
...examinations or for other reasons give cause for doubt as to their fitness for college. It seems a sensible notion. In any group of boys of college age there will naturally be a certain amount of emotional stress and strain--it is up to the College which is their parent for that interval to see what it can do to avoid the waste and failure which is incident thereto...