Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loves My Sister." At the weekly counseling session of the Community Child Guidance Center, Dr. Dreikurs asked Mike how old he was. The boy gave himself away by answering: "Nine months" (he has a sister nine months old). Asked, "Does your mother love you?", he replied: "She loves my baby sister." All Mike's answers confirmed what the family's first interview at the center, backed by observation of Mike in the playroom, had indicated: the boy felt himself dethroned by his baby sister, and was doing his poor best to take her place...
...welcome them. As their sponsor, he has promised to provide shelter for the Van Der Tuyns and their six apple-cheeked children, to help father Van Der Tuyn get a job. Back in Holland, Pfc. Magee's grave will not be forgotten: Madame Van Der Tuyn's sister has promised to care...
...White was well drilled in the classics and the old-fashioned virtues at Boston's Roxbury Latin School. The son of a doctor, young Paul sometimes got to drive his father's horse & buggy. He soon knew that he meant to be a doctor himself; when his sister died of rheumatic fever, he began to focus his interest on heart diseases. Intern White was sent to England to buy the Massachusetts General Hospital's first electrocardiograph and learn to run the new-fangled thing. That was in 1913. Dr. White has been taking tracings of heart impulses...
...member reported that he had done a little detective work on his own and discovered at least one Valley father who had not owned a big enough house; only by building a larger home was he able to make his daughter eligible for her sorority. Admitted a disillusioned sorority sister: "I've seen one girl blackballed because her feet were too big. Another was kept out because the bathtub in her parents' home still had legs...
...world president, who had flown out from Washington, D.C. to accept the gift. Elder Branson said a short prayer: "We know, dear Lord, that all the silver and the gold is thine; we pray to thee to bless this plant, the people who work in it, the brother and sister who have given it back to thee, and to bless its profits. Amen...