Word: weaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm. He becomes the village's traffic policeman. The plot ends with a surprise staged by Farmer Banks at a Community Day in Centerville's new school. He gives the village part of his land for a swimming pool. Aim of Centerville's subtle propaganda: to wean the younger generation from rugged individualism to cooperation...
Sculptor Hoffman had to use all her tact to wean the Field Museum trustees from their original scheme for the Hall of Man. Their idea was that it consist of a series of painted plaster figures, equipped with real hair and glass eyes...
...gazing at his bust in Rome's Temple of Peace, where only the greatest writers were immortalized, he could say to himself: "There are seventy-seven who have the ear of the world, and of these I am one." But when he let his adored Egyptian wife wean away their son to Hellenic heathenishness, when he compromised with his religion for the sake of Roman rewards, he would think: "Your Doctor Joseph is a scoundrel...
According to an economist close to the Minister of Economics and Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, "It may be necessary to wean the German public from certain luxuries by permitting their price to rise. Our egg reserve is seriously depleted by premature withdrawal of eggs from cold storage and a grave egg shortage may result this winter, but after all eggs are luxuries...
...famed controversy with the Smithsonian Institution over Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Bitterest Loening scorn is reserved for the Wartime Aircraft Production Board headed by Motorman Howard Earle Coffin, whom he accuses of having led a "Detroit conspiracy" in "crafty scheming to wean away aviation from its rightful owners...