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Word: childhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fraternity system at Williams College [TIME, Sept. 27]-and inferentially against the system in general-my immediate reaction was to diagnose his ... rehash of ancient and outmoded arguments against fraternities as a consequence of a recent attack of ulcers, a psychoneurotic ailment that brought to consciousness a childhood disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Semitic Twist? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Fruit First. In later years he was preoccupied with the cycle of human life, from embryo to the grave. One of the showpieces at Frogner is the Vigeland fountain, surrounded by four groups of "trees of life." One group depicts childhood, with babies dangling from the first tree like ripe fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Monumental Zoo | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Little Pamela Lamphere (22 months) cleared the first hurdle in her obstacle race for a normal life. Because she was born with her bladder outside her body, her best chance for outliving early childhood was a dangerous series of three operations (TIME, Aug. 23). Last week the first was performed in Chicago's Cook County Hospital by Surgeon Harry A. Oberhelman. Said Dr. Oberhelman: "It went just fine-couldn't be better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Good Start | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...recalls her introduction to Franklin Roosevelt when he arrived for the Cairo Conference. "The President spoke in a tone I hadn't heard since childhood: 'See you tomorrow, Child.' Elliott and Franklin stepped up as I moved away to drive General Eisenhower back to the Hopkins villa. "Come on back, Kay,' Franklin whispered. Elliott nodded, 'We're having a little party tonight and it might take your mind off things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Kay's War | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Solomon reluctantly closed the Bible. "I cannot speak about my sister or our childhood days," he said. His quiet teacher's voice-he is a teacher of classical Hebrew at the school-showed neither affection nor dislike. "She is a very important person and I am a very simple man. I do not like to advertise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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