Word: three-year-old
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...mother of little Horace to tell Horace that his father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command to Kuo Lao-man was his last message...
...remember hearing as far north as this, is calling from the birches behind the tents. The thermometer registers 43, and we crawl into our sleeping bags and listen for a few happy minutes to the roar of the river--and the next thing I knew, a golden-coated three-year-old buck is pawing and snorting just outside the tent, in the broad morning sunshine. We have come home...
...Onetime Philadelphia Presbyterian deaconess, Miss Mary I. Craig, was captured by bandits, last week, in Yunnan with the Rev. and Mrs. Morris Schlicter, their three-year-old daughter and small son, of Toronto, Canada. The bandits, enraged to discover their captives were almost without funds, shot and knifed Mr. Schlicter and his daughter on the spot, then vanished with their other captives into the remote interior...
Like the maddening rumble of guns that grew louder and louder in the ears of Parisians in 1914, the steady drone of a well-oiled machine has preyed upon the ears of the White House within the last fortnight. That drone was the culmination of the three-year-old groan of the sick farmer. That drone was the work of militant farm organizations, skillful lobbyists, a group of Senators and Representatives from the West and South who have convinced majorities in Congress that the proper medicine for the sick farmer is the McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14). Many...
...Three forms of achievement are coveted which give immediate and obvious glory-places on athletic teams, editorships of student publications, presidencies of student organizations. These are sought with unflagging zeal and scholarship is relegated to a subordinate position. . . . The evil influence of many alumni in glorifying the less important features of college life is well known. . . . Many a father holds forth upon his son's performances at college exactly as he would upon those of a promising young three-year-old in his stable...