Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain the able-bodied child must defend the honor of the infirm parent...
...such a school for undergraduates, and it is doubtful if it could take a place among the increasingly professional graduate schools; but the system of concentration and distribution already offers a basis on which a similar structure can be built. The field History and Literature is the most logical parent of such a system; it should be possible to develop particularly study of the current aspects of world affairs and literature, to broaden the attention given to the phenomena of the present. But to make such broadening effective, the next two points of the Princeton program are incomplete measures. Visiting...
...which the characters bear such names as Castel-Benac, Tronche-Bobine and Pitart-Vignolles, and act accordingly. It is the wistful, pathetic, ludicrous history of M. Topaze, a sad-eyed French schoolmaster with a beard, who was ousted from his classroom because he persisted in telling a wealthy parent the truth about her repulsive and boobish child. Not that M. Topaze objected to offering flattery-he was merely too simple ever to have conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which he had tried vainly to teach to his small boys. Consequently when he fell...
...also with individual sounds: Zipf has gathered statistics in thirteen languages as widely separated in time and space as Bulgarian, Italian, and Sanskrit, and finds in them a startling confirmation of his theory. For in all these tongues, offsprings of the ancient Indo-European parent, the less "conspicuous" sounds are the more frequent. Thus "t" occupies about 7 per cent in all these languages, "d" about 3, 1-2 per cent; the very "conspicuous" "dh" is rarest of all dentals...
...bold and unreasonable parent offered $10,000 a year for four years to any college that would give his son a "custom-made education, a complete job to specifications," and guarantee a result "superior to the usual quantity product." According to the story, as told in the Atlantic, a certain college president lacked the nerve to accept the challenge. But Dr. Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College, accepts it and says he will do the job for his regular rate of only $700 per year...