Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deceive himself that the change of opinion on these matters is one which affects only a small educated class. Let no one suppose that it is the working class which is going to be shocked with the idea of birth control or marriage reform. For them, these suggest new liberty and emancipation from the most intolerable of tyrannies...
...Government should take up birth control. It touches on the one side the liberties of women and on the other side the duty of the state to concern itself with the size of its population just as much as with the size of its army or the amount of the budget. With the use of one of the famed floating docks surrendered by Germany to Britain after the War, the 17th destroyer scuttled at Scapa Flow in June, 1919, by the Germans, was last week raised...
...right of Germany to have colonies, I can state that, when for the first time the question of entering the League of Nations was debated, Germany took the stand that as long as the League distributed colonies on the principle that the highly civilized nations had the right to control the less progressive peoples, Germany demanded the right to be counted among the civilized nations. On this point also Germany demands full equality in the League." ¶ Following Herr Stresemann's speech, the Reichstag adopted without a dissenting vote a new trade treaty with...
Such scenes do not yet occur, by design, in U. S. schools. But it is the proceeding that a Paris despatch described last week as Pedagog Phillippe Teste's "psychic bath," adopted by several French schools to develop children's self-control. Teachers testified that the "bath" had proved "extremely beneficial" in tranquilizing unruly, restive children. Doubtless it had stimulated many a logy, lethargic one as well...
...read recently," she writes, in an article [against birth control] by G. K. Chesterton that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, although displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting...