Word: conditioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The backwoods Bannisters, for all their advantages of fresh air and beautiful scenery, lived in a condition of squalor equal to that of any city slum. Heavy, truculent Mother Bannister was the township's "fast woman." In peaked caps and corduroy breeches, her sons, pinheaded Daniel and grinning Arthur...
Physically, the Commission found the present generation of U. S. Youth an unpromising lot. From Life Extension Institute, which had examined 100,000 young men, it learned that 75% suffer from "some sort of health defect." Its own Medical Committee, sampling, turned up 33% with diseased tonsils, 34% with defective...
"Naturally enough the idea suggested itself of using cornea from dead bodies. . . . Eyes removed from corpses immediately after death were found to be fit for transplantation. . . . The condition after the operation was pretty much the same as that in the case of cornea taken from live eyes. . . .
"I am asking only for an appropriation of $1,500,000,000 to the Works Progress Administration. . . . This request . . . will, if acted upon favorably by the Congress, give security during the next fiscal year to those in need, on condition, however, that private employers hire many of those now on...
Today the higher schools leave too many of their students in the condition of a man gorged with countless courses, no one of which is digested. The mean, as President Conant declares, should be simplified. We need to reach a point, as he says, where we shall be concerned with...