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...arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed it in a dirt path with a twig...
...Twig Is Bent. A Japanese baby's toilet training begins at four months, and is likely to be the most painful experience of his life. He is held out over the balcony or road at frequent intervals. For every lapse, he is ferociously punished-by his mother's scoldings (in a tone of horror and disgust), by shaking, sometimes by beating. Training is made more difficult by the fact that Japanese babies are habitually overfed (which Gorer thinks may account for Japanese grownups' lack of interest in food and ability to get along on small rations). Nonetheless...
While the cadets watched, officers demonstrated some lore of survival. One found a swampy spot, dug up the edible roots of cattails. Another showed how to twist a fish line from tough inner bark, whittle a hook from a thorned twig. A third whacked out a four-foot section of wild grapevine which dripped a cupful of clear water, surprisingly sweet and cool to the taste...
...when the cuckoo is momentarily baffled by a nest built in a hollow tree or other enclosed space with an aperture too small for her to enter. In this case the cuckoo just hangs at the entrance of the hole (by clinging to the edge of the nest, a twig, or bark of the tree) and lets...
Next day Stephens' startled Daddy and girls heard still more shocking talk. Exclaimed Dr. Leslie Benjamin Hohman, famed Johns Hopkins psychiatrist (author of As The Twig Is Bent): "Don't marry a soldier just because he wears a uniform. . . . Marriage in this country is based too much on romantic ideals. Romance is the whipped cream of marriage. . . . Whole civilizations have been founded on the theory of marriage without love; for example, the French marriage of convenience...