Word: childless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Phillips has found out that while the percentage of Harvard graduates marrying remained nearly constant at 75, the number of children born per married graduate dropped from 3.13 for the eight classes from 1853 to 1860 to 2.06 for the ten classes from 1881 to 1890. The percent of childless marriages rose from 7.8 in the first group to 23.4 in the last. For this second group the number of children per graduate stands at 1.55, and almost exactly the same figures are true for Yale...
With college graduate stock it has been calculated by experts that each family not childless must produce 3.7 children on an average in order barely to perpetuate the race. The actual number at Harvard is only 2.06. In other words Harvard graduates are the fathers of only 56 per cent, of the children necessary to continue their stock...
...drama is in three acts and is described as a play of contemporaneous life in the Middle West. The story is about a baby adopted by a childless couple who come upon it during a flood. The two have sunk low in degeneracy and hope to obtain an inheritance by pretending the child to be their own. Through the rest of the plot, the influence of the child causes a gradual regeneration. The scenes are laid in Cincinnati during a time of flood, and in an Ohio farmhouse...