Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intercommunication. The railroad system is a mere toy, and connects only a few centers. Mountains and great distances split the people into separate units. Differences in the spoken language, southern and northern antipathies, and provincial jealousies augment this division. There are practically no news papers, and only ten per cent of the populace can read. It is impossible to build a national feeling or a public opinion with no tools...
...Allah!" pluage with proselytizing fervor into a war for a cause, the validity of the means becomes obscured in the worth of the end. The liberties taken by anti-German historians in the war are well known, and the dubious statement is current that sixty per cent of the babies born of tobacco smoking mothers die in two years. At least, no doubt, a man drinking aldehyde will replace the policeman in the "You Can't Win" subway signs; the renegade will do his drinking down alleys in order to avoid the pointing fingers of abused wives and George Washingtons...
...Last week they were selling 20,000,000 a day. But success has been costly. Lorillard's net income in 1925 was $5,641,431. Last year it was $4,117,197. This year it will probably be less. Advertising costs, although a trivial fraction of a cent for each cigaret sold, is altogether enormous. But continued success in selling "Old Gold" will far more than pay for advertising appropriations. Meanwhile Lorillard's profits on their other brands of cigarets (Murad, Helmar, Egyptian Dieties), cigars and tobaccos show total profits as high...
...particular interest is the fact that there is still a large increase in the proportion of men who have undergone tonsil and adenoid operations, 39 per cent having had the undesirable members removed this year while only 33 per cent were recorded for the previous year...
...percentages of Freshmen falling into the A, B, C, and D classifications of posture are respectively four per cent, 36 per cent, 45 per cent, and 15 per cent. All men failing to obtain a grade above D are automatically placed in a class for special corrective exercises, conducted by N. W. Fradd...