Word: mother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insects, has been artificially induced by man in sea urchins and frogs, but never before in a mammal. Dr. Pincus used high temperature, hormone treatments and hypertonic salt solutions* to fertilize the ovum, and his canny microsurgical technique got the egg well started toward normal development in the host mother's reproductive tract...
...Cincinnati, Ohio, schoolboys, aged 9 to 12, organized a "Black X" gang, exacted tribute of 1? to 20? from their schoolmates for allowing them, to go to school without getting beaten up. One mother who received a note ("We want 15 cents by Monday or else we will go to town") kept her boy out of school for three days. Police discovered he had written it himself...
After 17 years in Paris, Walter Merguson speaks fluent French, lives with his mother in a Montmartre house which he owns. Thin, tall, well-mannered, he has seen most of Europe, before the war had visited both the Westwall and the Maginot Line. Last month Newsman Merguson scored a beat on the entire press of the U. S. with a story of the mobilization of French colonial troops. His cable to the Courier revealed that France was raising a black army of 2,000,000 soldiers, 500,000 laborers. Including the Senegalese fighters who were famed for valor...
...Reich. But, though the Nazi Consul is hardly a Chevalier Bayard, and Hitlerism is scarcely recommended to U. S. audiences, Margin for Error is much less propaganda than entertainment. At its best it is both: somebody asks, "What would Hitler say if he found out that his mother was Jewish?", is answered, "He would say he's Jesus...
...book (Parents and Teachers Go to School -Scott, Foresman & Co., $3) for parents and teachers, reporting what she had learned as amateur and professional, bumbling manifesto, her book sticks to specific cases, tells in detail how her nursery school straightened out many a little boy and girl, many a mother and father...