Word: national
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night Flanders discussed the nation's internal strength, with emphasis on economics and particularly on depression...
...Godkin Lecture Foundation was established in 1903 in memory of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and of The Nation, and noted post-Civil War liberal...
Dropping from 11,757 students in the University last year to the present total of 11,105, Harvard follows closely the five to ten percent decline in the larger public institutions, including all Ivy League schools. However, when the small schools are considered, the nation's college and universities show a 2.3 percent increase over enrollment figures...
Doctors themselves were mostly to blame for making the U.S. a nation of laxative-takers. A generation ago, they spread the word, with the help of patent-medicine advertisers, that waste matter retained in the colon causes self-poisoning. Current medical belief denies this. Furthermore, most so-called constipation is nothing of the sort; daily elimination is not necessary to everybody's health. Fof some people, an interval of two days or more may be natural...
...down payment on a piece of merchandise, pays regular installments, but does not get the article Until it is completely paid for. The company also took another radical step (for Woolworth's) this year: it bought space in 325 papers in 216 cities to test the merits of nation-wide newspaper advertising campaigns...