Sentences with phrase «research old wives»

They play guessing games, research old wives» tales, and anxiously buy everything yellow and green.

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If you do a little research, you'll also find that all Mile's wives were at least 18 or 19 when he married them so there goes that lie about marrying 11 year olds too.

The younger one is just a year old, and since his very first days, my wife and I have spent a lot of time thinking and talking (and occasionally worrying) about the research on stress and its effect on early brain development.

This old wives» tale has now been negated by research [v], which has shown that the main factors that contribute to breast ptosis are: age, history of significant (> 50 lb) weight loss, higher body mass index, larger bra cup size, number of pregnancies and smoking history.

While old wives» tales are just for fun, there has been much research regarding the pregnancy line that actually rings true.

These are not just old wives» tales — they are backed up by serious research.

The 38 - year - old late night talk show host was at the event to present the Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award to music manager Scooter Braun and his wife Yael for their dedication to high priority cancer research and humanitarian efforts.

Alternating between bouts of increasingly heavy drinking and half - hearted research for a book on Pierre Bonnard, Max ultimately spends most of his time wallowing in two separate spheres of memory: the bleak recent past of his wife's illness, which she faced with considerably cooler acceptance than he, and the summer of 1955, an end - of - innocence season for the 12 - year - old Max (Matthew Dillon).

«Catch and kill policies are fear - based and rely on old wives» tales and flawed research to justify prejudice against cats,» says Ackerman.

As a former research chemist myself, I do not fall for old wives» tales nor scare tactics.