Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every child has a unique, dynamic pattern of growth. A mother, aided by her pediatrician, must find this pattern rather than impose an artificial schedule on her baby. A wise mother should be able to sense the time when her child is ready to graduate to the cup, solid foods, long pants, football. She must never try to force him to do certain tasks at a certain age because the books say so. Most of a pediatrician's trouble, confessed the doctors last week, is not with children, but with neurotic, earnest parents...
...Pediatricians used to vie with each other to see who could find the earliest age to give infants solid foods. One even fed meat to toothless three-month-olds. But now doctors generally stick to milk, wait for a few teeth before feeding babies solids. As for the transition from bottle to cup, Dr. Aldrich suggests placing a cup on baby's feeding tray, waiting till he starts to play with it and tries to drink...
...Chairman Fly was by no means up against a solid industry opposition. The amendments were in fact made upon petition by Mutual Broadcasting System, the fast-growing cooperative network which stands to lose nothing by an unchaining of small stations...
Three months ago New York's solid bloc of votes saved the administration group at the Guild convention in Detroit. This time the Administration counted on a 1,700-vote majority from among New York's 4,000 members to save them again. But New York gave them a majority of only 158 votes...
...performances by a slick cast. As sly Sam Spade, a hot-&-cold private detective who doesn't bat an eye while committing the heroine (Mary Astor) he loves to the pen, Bad Man Humphrey Bogart gives the performance of his career. Close behind him is an aging (61), solid (280 lb.), crackerjack Broadway actor (Sydney Greenstreet) making his first movie a shivery success. Making a trio with this pair is slight, saccharine, sinister Peter Lorre, whose mere presence would turn a bedtime story macabre...