Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...drugstores of 35 U. S. cities last fall, this same scene was enacted by the same man. He had no sick "friend": he was pussyfooting for the U. S. Public Health Service and Manhattan's American Social Hygiene Association. His mission: to find out whether three years of Government education on venereal disease had really "taken" or whether quacks still hold the field. Last week Social Hygienists Mary Stockton Edwards and Paul Michael Kinsie published the results of the traveling investigator. Gloomy were their conclusions. Some 5,000,000 venereal disease victims, said they, out of a total...
...development. The Harvard of today, with its capital of 143 million of dollars and its population of 8000, has sprung up within the last 90 years, though its name has been honored for over three centuries. Bur about ten years ago this rate of growth suddenly began to fall, a fact bound to produce many a knotty problem of policy. President Conant has taken note of the common origin of these problems, and has offered some tentative gropings for a solution...
...only to compare his programs with those of other leading conductors to see that Koussevitsky is also outstanding in his bold and frequent digressions from the traditional orchestral repertoire. It is easy for established artists to fall in completely with conservative section of their public and get into a repetitions rut as the Metropolitan Opera Company has done, Koussevitsky is criticised plentifully, especially for favoring contemporary composers so strongly, but a concert like Malko's and a look at the work of other conductors in America are enough to remind us that the repertoire of the Boston Symphony...
...black-maned, 43-year-old lawyer, onetime consular official and G-Man, now head of a Los Angeles investigating firm, started by questioning some 500 letter & numeral men on 1937 Conference teams. He got cooperation by promising: 1) no punishments, 2) no publication of details. He wound up last fall with case histories of 250 variously subsidized athletes, findings that filled a dozen black-bound, legal-sized volumes, some of them five inches thick...
Besides a lack of anything like an elementary knowledge of English, he had a tendency toward fits. He got the bells safely up in their tower in the fall of 1930 and had a fit soon after...