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Constant contact with a little child can bring about a wholesome effect in an overanxious household, Dr. Perkins finds. "Attention is distracted from one's own personal problems through the outpouring of interest and affection on behalf of the newcomer . . . and it is by no means an uncommon experience for persons who have been victims of sexual frigidity to discover that the intimate responsibility and care of a little child have aroused a long postponed reaction...
...stay. And, despite all the humanitarian pacts ever signed, we know that gas is going to be used on an unprecedented scale. You gentlemen are going to encounter two new types of casualties in increasing numbers, namely mustard gas and out-&-out burns. It should not be an uncommon occurrence to find mustard casualties soaring close to the 100% mark in the smaller units. . . . In addition to these mustard casualties it seems to me that we must expect and prepare for another type of burn. Today there is more than one indication that thermit and white phosphorous are going...
Shown is a most comely lady looking out of a port hole. Now the lady is on the inside looking out. But her admiring sheik is on the outside looking in. All of which is, of course, not uncommon...
Chapter by chapter and sentence by sentence Author Coyle tried his composition out on a Maine fisherman and the fisherman's wife. Result: Uncommon Sense. Further result: 50,000 copies have been ordered by the Democratic National Committee. Theme of Uncommon Sense: "Saving for a rainy day only makes it rain." With lucid plausibility David Cushman Coyle expounds technological unemployment, the arrival of an economy of plenty, the advantages of economic nationalism, the congenital wickedness of high finance. The blame for Depression he places on men who invest part of their income instead of spending it. His solution...
...Uncommon Sense (National Home Library, 25^) is by Engineer David Cushman Coyle who designed Washington's State Capitol and has done time as a technical adviser to PWA. Some months ago he wrote a booklet called Brass Tacks explaining the whole economic system as he saw it, a work that is supposed to be a favorite with Franklin Roosevelt. This summer he went to an island in Maine, settled down with Brain Trusters Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen as his neighbors, began to produce a nontechnical version of Brass Tacks...