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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before their hands ever manage a steering wheel, many New York school children will know that acceleration, not braking, is the way to control skidding; that the best way to start on an icy surface is in high, not low gear. They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Safety by the Book | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

His new play gone stale, down to his last $391.23, Philip Whitlock abandons his retreat in the Canadian woods, goes to visit the Marstons, owners of the wire factory in a one-industry town in Connecticut, and stays on in their guest house. The fateful Marstons are a gruesome miniature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Violent Salvation | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

¶Heard a remarkable report on experiments that proved intelligence is affected by environment. Psychologist George Dinsmore Stoddard, director of the Child Welfare Station in Iowa City, Iowa, reported that: 1) illegitimate children of feeble-minded mothers and laboring fathers, after being placed in good homes, turned out to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bold Talk | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

When he was growing wealthy and in danger of arrest, she tried to burn his incriminating papers, failed, and watched him go to prison. For the seven years that he was there, frightened Julie rebounded between the stuffy, self-righteous world of her sister, and the rebellious, desperate, exciting world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Convict's Girl | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Last week U. S. readers had a chance to see what sort of material offends London journalists when To beg I am ashamed was brought out with no pre-publication onslaughts. Their main reaction was likely to be one of surprise that so conventional a story could cause so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Columnists' Sensation | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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