Word: cheapness
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Birth control propagandists are in the habit of imputing interested motives to their opponents, as that doctors fear loss of obstetrical patronage, clergymen want a plentiful supply of church members from the "lower classes," military men want "cannon fodder," politicians want voters, captains of industry want cheap labor, etc. "Foxes think large families among the rabbits highly commendable," writes Thomas Nixon Carver, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard...
...over the world there is a pressing demand for cheap cotton. In the past, America has supplied this demand, but unless headway can be made against the boll weevil menace, this country can produce only high-priced cotton...
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...youth Ibanez was a political orator. He waged battle for causes. He fought duels. Now he is publisher, journalist, novelist. His publishing firm has published in the form of cheap little paper books practically all of the world's masterpieces for the benefit of the Spanish people. Publishing on a grand scale-yes!-for Ibanez is just that -grandiose. Life for him, I fancy, is a brilliant gesture...
...Masefield is often more disagreeable. He is a realist and is temperamental about it. His profanity is revolting and largely because of this I would say he exhibits cheap realism. Shaw in one of his seenes gains all the effect of the use of profacity by merely having the speakers repeat the word "rotten", but Masefield simply swears,--to the extent that one becomes weary...