Word: statuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...while the nation mourned the assassinated President William McKinley, Alice, 17, was "filled with an extreme rapture," she later said. Her father's rise to the presidency brought the attention-hungry teen instant celebrity and fashion-icon status. "Princess Alice," as she was dubbed, embarked on a diplomatic mission to Japan with then Secretary of War William Howard Taft, diving into the ship's pool fully clothed, attending sumo wrestling matches and enchanting the press...
Certainly, there are other things that could account for what makes some kids battlers in school and others not. But the most powerful variables--parents and personality--were identified and their influence isolated during the course of the two-year-long observations. Socioeconomic status, an X factor that bedevils studies like this one, was controlled by selecting all the families from the same economic stratum. Distill those influences away and what is left is the interaction of the sibs. "Siblings have a socializing effect on one another," Shaw says. "When you tease out all the other variables...
...argue against bilingualism by comparing the Hispanic immigrants of the U.S. to the Québécois of Canada. Francophones sailed up the St. Lawrence River almost a century before the English did. That means that the French and the French language deserve at least some kind of official status and recognition in North America...
...these risk factors probably seem overwhelming. Even worse, it seems that there's very little an engaged couple can do to help themselves. They can't reverse their parent's divorce, and they can't elevate their financial status overnight. They might be able to attend church, but if God hasn't spoken to them, faking it doesn't help...
...mean the need for local churches to work at an ordered and mutually respectful separation between constituent and associate elements." This seems to be saying Williams can imagine conservatives separating from the Episcopalian Church and setting up a new U.S. body which would be more likely to enjoy full status with the Communion. In his statement, it is followed by a classic "on the other hand" clause that excludes that sort of two-American-churches setup...