Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plays proceeds pungently at the Theatre Guild. Not for a dozen years has Manhattan heard Shavian firecrackers go off around the ankles of the medical profession. The sputter of novelty has been muted by time and by an increasing propensity on the part of the profession itself to admit how many, many things it cannot cure. But for those who still regard medicine as magic, it will be a painless purge. For those who still more reasonably revere as magic an agile comedy immaculately acted, it will be a blessing...
...months ago the New York Stock Exchange after long hesitation decided to admit trading in foreign stocks. The chief restrictions were that such stocks and securities have first rights to their company dividends and that those dividends be regular. There was a flourish of expectations among Manhattan stock brokers. They thought that foreign concerns would swarm to list their stocks. However, foreign investors are amply able to buy their own sound securities. So last week the stock of only one outlander company, the Austrian Credit Anstalz, stood on the Manhattan Exchanges' list, and only one other, the Trading Company...
...them religion has been the most reluctant to admit the wisdom of control. The sacred writings of all religions make specific injunctions for generation, impugn sterility. The barren woman must hang her head; the fertile woman is praised, yet not glorified. Her labour is not pitied. However, the Protestant churches have begun to examine the problem. High prelates of the Church of England have advocated control. The Protestant Episcopal Church, at their San Francisco general conference last June listened to sane expositions (TIME July 4). Their viewpoint is, of course, ethical. They would balance a moral equation-their dogmatic injunctions...
...Control League conducts a clinic to instruct poor mothers "for health reasons."* New York State laws permit that. Dr. James F. Cooper is medical director of the clinic. He found that uninstructed, desperate mothers had been enduring abortions. Ten abortions for a woman was a common number. One woman admit ted 40. In England the Malthusian League, conducts a similar clinic for poor women. Other countries have them. Those better off, as in the U. S., themselves must collect information...
...time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that he comes from Shemokin...