Word: ruralization
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...given Hitler one of the major ovations of his life, Hamburg voted less than 4 to i for Hitler, lowest majority of any great city in the Reich. Berlin also was far below the national average, voted 5 to 1. Leader Hitler made his best showing in the rural regions of East Prussia, Pomerania and Franconia...
...trial ended with a jury disagreement in 1913. For four years more the Swopes egged the prosecutors on, then weary of the expensive procedure they agreed to let the indictment against Dr. Hyde be dropped. Dr. Hyde took a job loading sand trucks in Kansas City, later moved to rural Lexington where he had a small practice...
...protecting rural homes and buildings, Mr. McEachron declares a good lightning rod is effective 99 times in 100. In use since Benjamin Franklin's time, lightning rods and the glib agents who sold them were long in disfavor with farmers because so many rod-equipped structures were struck by bolts and burned. But this was found due in almost every case to faulty installation. Nine-tenths of the deaths caused by lightning in the U. S. (some 50 per year) occur in the country. Cities are much safer because big buildings, with steel frames acting as lightning rods...
...reached its mid-summer peak. It shows lighter incidence in San Francisco (90 cases) and Alameda County (106 cases), where the population has been long urbanized and exposed to the disease, than in Los Angeles County (949 cases) where a large part of the population comes from the rural and unexposed Midwest...
...Clarence here talks of plumbing of the baser sort and discloses an expert knowledge of what Shakespeare called 'Jakes' and of those mundane matters of which those of us with rural upbringing are admittedly hardly qualified to speak...