Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after he became Primate of Hungary, a friend asked Mindszenty's mother whether she was happy over her son's rise. The old woman said: "I have been happy many times about my son, and happiest when he prepared for the priesthood. But I lamented over him when they led him to Esztergom...
...Turley was no Sarah,* but there are few cases on record of childbearing at 59. In the 18th Century, Lucas Debes wrote of a Scandinavian woman who supposedly became pregnant at 103. Pliny reported that Cornelia of the family of Serpius bore a son at 60. Probably the oldest case known to scientific record, reported in 1882, is a Scottish woman who gave birth to her 22nd child...
Restless Sophisticates. Adelheide's population ranges in age from 9 to 20. To make as homelike an atmosphere as possible, the children are divided into groups of 25 or 30, each known as a "family" and supervised by a trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...
...these grass-roots owners are aware of their ownership. Last year, an aged woman walked into Merrill Lynch's Pittsburgh office with a package of yellowed stock certificates she had found in an old bureau drawer. She thought they were worthless, but had borrowed 30? carfare to go to the office to make sure. The stock was worth...
JOEL ROME '51 brandishes a woman's leg. The stocking is of sheer silk and medium length, size nine. The leg lost Rome during the Dartmouth game and just got back...