Word: weaning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the teeth are on the way, as shown by dribbling, the parotid glands secrete an active saliva capable of digesting breadstuffs. Weaning should be fixed partly by the child's age, partly by the appearance of the teeth. The first come during the sixth or seventh month. From then on the number of sucklings may be reduced?in a month to twice a day. When the second pair of teeth arrive, the mother can wean the child. When the third group (the later incisors and grinders) appeal-about the end of the first year, the baby can chew solid...
...been a journalistic prodigy ever since, is the most prolific Jewish writer of this generation. Histories, primers, geographies, magazine articles-there is nothing he has not written. But he was not the man to quench the fire in Jabotinsky's eyes. He was not the man to wean from Weizmann the financial support of U. S. and British Jews. In political confusion, he was lost...