Word: developmental
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Dionne Quintuplets. "If a highly favorable environment could do what some psychologists claim," says Dr. Newman, "these five children should be far ahead of most children of their age in mental development [but] the quints are all somewhat retarded mentally ... a disappointing mediocrity, to say the least."
Slonimsky recently completed the first comprehensive survey of contemporary composers of South America, an area little studied by musical scholars. He found that music had reached a high stage of development there, and that a great majority of composers write program music, taking their material from the histories and backgrounds...
But last week well-plucked Condor turned amphibian. Taking to the water, it signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give...
The Barnes Foundation is a one-man show founded and run by Albert Coombs Barnes, who invented Argyrol, made millions from his invention and in 1922, aged 49, started his school. Mr. Barnes endowed his Foundation with $6,000,000, gathered one of the world's most impressive collections...
Quick to defend its editorial freedom was the Herald Tribune. Recalling that it had printed another Thompson column the week before, endorsing Roosevelt, the Herald Tribune declared that last week's article was "misleading" by itself, had been "withheld . . . pending the full development of Miss Thompson's views...