Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steel Seafarer was one of the string of U.S. ships-now almost one-a-day-which have been carrying war materials to the British in the Middle East via the Red Sea for four-plus months. U.S. citizens could safely assume that the President would not let Incident No. 3 pass, either...
...from the biological schedule, Dr. Gesell claims that a doctor can tell that something is wrong. The tests take only ten to 20 minutes, can be easily mastered by all doctors. They require such simple equipment as colored rings, a rattle, blocks, a pellet and bottle, a bell, a string, paper and crayon, etc. A few examples of normal behavior at key ages...
...weeks: This is the age of the index finger-of poking and prying. The baby sits up by himself, plucks a string, creeps, pulls himself to his feet against the railing of his pen. He can say "mama, dada," and one other word. At mealtime he holds his bottle...
Said Joe, expelling his long-held breath: "I'm tickled to death it's all over. . . ." Next day, grinning, he started another string that had reached a count of three by week's end-despite the cunning of Pitchers Bob Feller and Harold Newhouser...
...singer who made the record bears the press-agented title of "The Star-Spangled Soprano"-Lucy Monroe. Soprano Monroe, who used to sing accurately and unspectacularly in musicomedy, radio and the Metropolitan Opera (when it had a second-string spring season), got in the patriotic groove when she let loose the national anthem before the 1937 American Legion convention. Now she sings it at the doff of a hat. She believes that every office and factory worker should be made to start the day right by listening...