Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists will hear discussion of more than twenty research projects in progress at university and industrial laboratories on the transmission, control, and nature of sound...
...tuberculous, 30-year-old nurse named Margaret Sanger began publishing singlehanded a feminist paper called the Woman Rebel. Six months later she began raising money for a pamphlet called Family Limitation, the opening gun in her campaign to spread the gospel of Birth Control...
Told last week in Margaret Sanger's 504-page autobiography, that anecdote was symbolic of her singleminded, 23-year fight against police, courts, churchmen and ridicule to legalize birth control in the U. S. Most of the public highlights of her story-Congressional lobbying, duels with the Catholic Church, her sensational visit to Japan in 1922, a whirlwind missionary tour of India-are well known. But her beginnings-as the sixth of eleven children of a free-thinking tombstone carver in Corning, N. Y., as a nurse on Manhattan's lower East Side, and as a central member...
...that story is one that Margaret Sanger is herself the first to see. Behind the applause she hears a rumbling a thousand times more ominous than any that ever came from court or church-a rumbling from Europe's dictator-ridden countries, which distinctly do not want Birth Control, are much more interested in cannon fodder than in eugenics...
SHANGHAI--Monday--Japanese armed forces today drove deeper into Central and Southwestern China, ignoring parallel diplomatic protests from Britain, France, and the United States against their increasing control of China...