Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disease tends to breed in families where serious, long-standing social problems exist," Dr. Robert Jackson of the University of Iowa reported this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Students of rheumatic fever cannot fail to learn how important wholesome family life is to the welfare of children, and how devastating immoral practices, such as selfishness, greed, drunkenness, promiscuity and divorce, are to wholesome family life. Only when an attack on these complicated detrimental forces is made, utilizing supernatural and natural resources, can one hope for the eradication of this scourge of childhood."* Citing his study...
...city life-paintings that bite deeper than propaganda pictures of the "social-consciousness" school ever could. By contrast, Grandma Moses' glowing, not very "primitive" Out for the Christmas Trees and Louis Bouche's slapdash evocation of the New Lebanon Railroad Station, though just as true to American life, were as warm and easy to take as a sunshiny...
Graduating from Dartmouth ('25), Brown had a try at banking in Detroit, returned to Dartmouth to teach history, got a Ph.D. in history from Columbia, and published a biography of a minor American Revolutionary figure (Joseph Hawley of Massachusetts). After a. spell as associate editor of the Times's monthly news review, Current History, Brown moved over to Lester Markel's Sunday department in 1936. He was assistant Sunday editor when he left, in 1945, to join TIME, where he has been editor of the Hemisphere, Canadian and Latin America sections...
...every chance of failure. Beginning in 1539, the Spanish Franciscans had given generously of their labors and their lives (more than 300 were martyred) to convert the Indians-with practically no success. In 1828, the last Spanish Franciscan withdrew. It was not until the century was almost over that American Franciscans decided to take up the work once again. With three monks they began St. Michael's in an abandoned trading post on a 160-acre tract of land...
...would like nothing better than to [find] on the New York Stock Exchange [securities] of waterworks in South America, electric light and power companies in the Middle East. [But] how can we expect [others] to amend their [restrictive] laws toward American capital, knowing that investment and investors at home are discriminated against and discouraged...