Word: festered
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...your population in urban centres and only 10% on the land. That is a danger to life. After the fourth generation the energy of the country man is worn out in the city .... [and the unemployed] gather in dark slums and in one room ... so that life will fester into rottenness. . . . How is the city going to perpetuate itself . . .? Keep a larger population on the land. Rural industries must be interspersed with agriculture. There must be created what I call a rural society with an enlarged civic spirit like that in the Greek city states. ... I should like to supplicate...
...Long Island Sound, off Mayville, L. I., Henry Pester was fishing. A sea gull frisked greedily about his catch. He kept chasing it away. The gull darted at the water, caught a 1-lb. weakfish, dropped it squarely in Mr. Fester's lap, flew away...