Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chanced upon a little paragraph telling about an elephant's stampede in India. Here I thought was the longed for material for my verse, so I wrote up the incident in the required ponderous style and sent it in. TIME proved to be my lifesaver, at any rate it seemed to please the Professor. ... I received a gratifying grade for the assignment. So thanks for TIME, we look forward to its coming each week, it is just a little different from all the other periodicals...
...Haven Emerson of Columbia put the obligation of public health officers to deal not only with physical matters but also with causes of suicide, by asking: "Is it not at least as important that the suicide rate has risen from 4.9 to 19.7 for each 100,000 of our people in 70 years, as that the diabetes death rate has done about the same...
...hell, it is a central bank.'" The Redistricting Intermezzo. The book's most personal chapter deals with the dividing of the country into "not less of 'direct pressure' (the warning of Feb. 7, 1929 [TIME, Feb. 18] as opposed to the raising of the discount rate) has clarified the problem (protection of credit against speculation) and advanced its solution." The Man, In 1798, in Hamburg, was founded M. M. Warburg & Co. Since then a son of the Warburg family has always headed the House of Warburg, none other than Warburgs have reached dominance therein. Paul Warburg...
...peration of every state health department; year-round health instruction in all schools; summer courses in health education in three dozen universities; $100,000 just sent to overcome starvation, hookworm and tuberculosis among Porto Rican children; pre-natal maternal education; a definitely lowered child sickness and mortality rate...
...Simon & Schuster have most successfully developed the art of "panicking" the public into buying their books-books often intrinsically worthless. Says Critic Notch: "Anyone who reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject...