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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of a thorough investigation of these specimens, too full to set down here, are clear-cut and conclusive, and show beyond question a higher birth-rate, marrage rate, and fecundity-rate, among the more successful classes, which points to numerical triumph over the less successful ones in the matter of reproduction. Groups one and two produce roughly on the average of twice s many children as Groups your and five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATURAL SELECTION | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

...Presbyterian Church before his Foreign Mission Board, which held its 30th annual conference in Manhattan. Said he: "All over the world today we see the breaking down of all other religions. And now it is going to be the Christian religion or no religion whatever. It is a clear issue between Christianity and agnosticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Meetings | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...loses his god it is likely that he himself will soon be lost. He grows morose. Mr. Fortune rebuilds the hut, sets things to rights, tries to encourage his acolyte. But he can accomplish nothing. Man and master are spiritually wasting away. The man's duty grows clear. He must restore Lueli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maggot | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...College is that of inculcating a certain skill in the use of English in those students who have not acquired such an ability before entering college. The Engineering student, fully occupied with the rigorous requirements of his specialized training, has not the incidental opportunity to develop a clear and facile style in writing which literature courses, and written reports afford his classmate in the College. Moreover, while English A was far from a panacea for all difficulties, the abolition of the English. A requirement for those who pass the English college board with a mark of 70 per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGINEERING ENGLISH | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

Gentlemen, this much is clear...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 6/17/1927 | See Source »

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