Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clinic of Child Development (conducted by famed Dr. Arnold Gesell and staff), it shows actual examples of Baby's coming to grips with the world: at four weeks barely able to move the head, at four months gaining control of the fingers, at four years able to stick out the tongue at whoever happens to be handy. The film provides a quick glance at the normal patterns of infant behavior, and suggests that if parents understood these patterns better, there would be less worrying, less nagging and less slapping...
...undershirt with suspenders down, Carl Spaatz, announced a soldierly decision last week: no politics-he would stick to his own game. The General was interviewed while he was shaving...
...admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough to stick in the public's mind. The boy who went to work as a sculptor's apprentice when he was ten was given degrees at Oxford and Cambridge, and grandly declined a baronetcy. His cup was running over when, at 70, Watts really fell in love-this time with...
Harvard's Astronomer Fred L. Whipple thought Diana might provide a test of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. According to Einstein, the velocity of light is constant, which makes it the basic measuring stick in the universe. If light's velocity were proved to be variable, as some suspect, science's present conceptions of the universe would have to be scrapped. Since radio waves travel at the same speed as light, and the distance from the earth to the moon can be figured closely by triangulation, measuring the time it takes for a radar echo...
...merchants and respectable townspeople realize that the homesteaders are in the right in their feud with the cattlemen, but everybody has too much business prudence to stick his neck out. Everybody, that is, except Mr. Scott, who organizes the homesteaders and brings a specious truce to Abilene...