Word: nursemaids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around it. Anya Sosoyeva, 32, a blonde dancer and drama student, was bludgeoned to death in one of its lanes last February. Bludgeoned, robbed (of 35?) but not killed was Delia Bogard, 18, who sometimes danced in L. A. C. C. plays. Bludgeoned, raped and left to live was Nursemaid Myrtle Wagner, 17. Hammered to death while abed at home was Mrs. Margaret Campbell, 56, a onetime actress who taught drama...
...made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum products, foodstuffs, wood-pulp and copper-to mention only a few items-are produced for the foreign market. . . ." Author of this exposition is ruddy President Warren Lee Pierson of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, official guardian and nursemaid of this enormous trade. Last week his bank made one loan, was at work on another, which heralded a new spurt in efforts to help the U. S. exporter cultivate the particularly fertile field of South America...
...figure of a lass named Arleen Whelan, has shifted many of the novel's best scenes to strange and shadowy positions, has relegated to the attic the memorable ball-and-cutlass siege of the Brig Covenant's roundhouse, has made storied Patriot Alan Breck (Warner Baxter) play nursemaid...
...unsettled natures of Freshmen, combined with the aimlessness of secondary education in general, necessitate advisers. They are a foundation of the desired program for individualized education and their goal is first ascertaining the student's ability and knowledge and then helping him to use them. Their function is not nursemaid nor solely friend, but guide in all academic matters. To show him how to study, to interest him in the University life, to direct him toward a field of concentration; these the advisers should be expected to do. For the emotionally maladjusted they cannot be directly responsible, but when such...
...hills. They make indiscriminate food deliveries all around. For another, they allow a species of butterfly to invade the nests and eat the grubs. The ants tolerate this because they like a sticky substance which the butterfly exudes. "It is," commented owl-eyed Biologist Huxley, "as if a nursemaid were to allow a wolf to carry off the baby from her pram in return...