Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Biologists of the State Medical Department of Württemberg analyzed, last week, blood samples taken from a man, a young woman, a babe. Impersonal, they reported that the man and the young woman belong to the second "blood group," while the child belongs to the fourth. Summing up, they wrote: "A child invariably inherits its blood group characteristics from one or the other parent. As, in the present case, neither the mother's nor the alleged father's blood shows the characteristics found in the child, the only conclusion possible is that parentage by the accused...
...Alexander Patterson disapproved of married women becoming teachers simply to get the money to keep a maid. John E. O'Connor, President of the Board, objected to retaining in the school system women whose husbands received salaries of from $3,000 to $5,000 because their positions should belong to women who had no one to support them...
...inclination has grown up among students to divide all the world into those who belong and those who do not, and to make the line of demarcation a college degree. To have taken isolated examples from the ranks of the magnates who write for the American Magazine would have proved as little as over, but the knowledge that two-thirds of those who enter college have come from homes that never knew the framed degree is soothing balm to the knowledge that Bryn Mawr's best is 1.8 children per graduate...
...want to be connected with a navy that is only an average navy. What we need is a bigger and better navy. It is useless to belong to a navy that wins prizes for merely being average. An average navy is a detriment to the country...
...word "inland" in reference to Beaumont, Tex., was a slip-up on my part, so far as I know. It did not belong in the paragraph. I stand convicted of this offense, thus, by one word, robbing the book of all truth...