Word: infantability
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...Here, take a snapshot of a young Bolshie," cried Chargé d'Affaires Rosengolz amiably, and pushed his infant son before a photographer's camera...
...provide 500,000,000 catchable fish? There are 291 federal, state and private game-fish hatcheries, turning out an average of 1,100,000,000 infant game fish annually. But infant game fish are prey to their cannibal elders. The loss of infant salmon is 99.77%. What is needed, what Mr. Hoover and his men have proved the value of, is fish nurseries, where infants may become fingerlings. Nurseries increase the infants' survival chances to "about...
William Allen White ( editor of the Emporia [Kan.] Gazette, prolific commentator on life and literature) told the New York Herald Tribune the turning point in his career. It came, he said, when he was a "smart aleck . . . infant prodigy," aged 24, on the editorial staff of the Kansas City Star. He was clowning, being loud, disorderly with three drinks under his belt, when a brown-eyed girl, whom he later married, told him to give up "that stuff forever." Then, said he, "I saw the bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale...
...that fleeting sentiment and may violate all the rules of reality, to say nothing of good taste, they are for that reason valuable. But to go the undergraduate for the truth-whatever that is-about himself and his fellows is as wise as to seek advice from as infant on the subject of the care and feeding of children. One is amused but one gains little information except that of an intensely subjective and irrelevant nature...
...afternoons he rode in bicycle races, became Junior Champion of the vicinity, added thus to his fame, his income. But it was in four-wheeled, not two-wheeled, vehicles that he made his fortune. Like many another far-sighted man who was young when the automobile industry was an infant, he hitched his wagon to the horseless-carriage. In 1898 he went to Europe, brought back two European-made motor cars, sold both at a profit. Then he went to Detroit, came back with a contract giving him the New England territory for the Packard car. As the Packard...