Word: tots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tadpole-shaped fistprint of a moppet. This-according to Persian legend-is why: a rugmaker one day reprimanded his infant son for playing recklessly among his dye pots. The child, incensed, brought down his dripping little fist on a nearby rug. Regarding the curly imprint of the tot's clenched hand, the artist gave the Persian version...
...British formula of 1940 held that a minimum of inflation follows a war finance program of one-half taxes, one-half loans. Britain soon fell behind this goal; so did the U.S. (see chart). For the fiscal year ending next June 1943, budgeted defense expenditures tot up to $56 billions, all expenditures to $59 billions. Even after the proposed $8 billions in new taxes, annual revenues in sight are $26 billions. More than half, therefore, must be borrowed...
Miss Fenner's library has tot-size sofas and club chairs upholstered in red and blue, where her small customers may be found at all hours (even after school). Miss Fenner rarely sits at her librarian's desk. While children sign out their own books, she tours the bookshelves, listening gravely to criticisms of stories, helping choose books. She also runs a stamp club, a dramatic club (for acting stories), a library club (to help straighten books, stamp cards, etc.), a storytelling hour...
...year-olds, combine singing, harmony, composition, teaching by rote. Instead of learning a showpiece by playing it over & over, a student plays many pieces, however sketchily. Most widespread modern system is the Oxford Piano Course, developed at Northwestern University by Osbourne McConathy, Gail and Charles Haake. Many an Oxfordized tot startles his mother by asking how to find the dominant seventh in four sharps-a key which the oldtime piano-marms kept for their star pupils...
...Civil War days when the Union would have fallen apart without them. Thousands rushed to enlist (see p. 8). Other thousands helped in other ways: > At the Treasury in Washington so many gifts of money arrived that clerks worked overtime to acknowledge them, had no time left to tot them up. One man sent $100 he had won at a movie bank night. A hairdresser sent an entire day's receipts: $200. Most frequent message: "Merry Christmas to Uncle Sam." > Defense-bond sales jumped as much as 8,691% in one city, soon forced some post offices and banks...