Word: two-year-old
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...history of World War II, July 1942 will be marked as a tragic month: U.S. war production tsars ran out of raw materials just when they had finally begun to answer the two-year-old question of what raw-material needs really were. Up to July there were shortages all over the place, but they were mostly regarded as individual bottlenecks, to be broken by separate emergency means. By July-the first month when almost all U.S. war industry was forced to submit quarterly estimates of all requirements-the individual bottlenecks had merged into a choking squeeze around the neck...
...coast. Many of the company had been bruised and battered as they tumbled along the listing deck and slid down manropes into the lifeboat. The ship's surgeon, Dr. Leonard Hudson Conly, on whom Mrs. Mohorovicic now depended, had two broken ribs. Mrs. Mohorovicic herself had hurt her legs badly when she fell, carrying her two-year-old daughter Visna to the boat...
Daily rations were one biscuit, one-quarter of a cup of water, two teaspoonfuls of condensed milk. The youngest, and one of the most stoical, of the forlorn voyagers was two-year-old Janet Johnson...
...TIME'S Dec. 29 story on Dumbo, which designated that blue-eyed baby elephant "Mammal-of-the-Year," TIME quoted Vladimir ("Bill") Tytla, Disney staff artist who conceived Dumbo's face, form and character. "Most of the expressions and mannerisms," said Artist Tytla, "I got from my own kid. There's nothing theatrical about a two-year-old...
Cure. At four, this boy still sucked his thumb and wet his bed, was afraid of dogs and so timid that he accepted protection from his two-year-old brother in fights with other children. But the mother responded to institute therapy, which encouraged mothers and children in outside interests. The boy, when last seen at age 15, was doing well at school, was a good swimmer, had a girl, showed every promise of leading a normal life...