Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to A.D.A.'s past president, Dr. Arthur Hastings Merritt of Manhattan, the incidence of tooth decay today is as bad as it was 100 years ago, even though dental care is better. Said he: "People spend $1,600,000,000 a year on tobacco, and this is $200,000,000 more than they spend on all medical care, including surgery and dentistry...
...chief gods of literature in the 1930s -James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein-were historians of decay. Let us cast off these gods, who have injected writers, scholars, schools and schoolboys with meanness, cynicism, defeatism, and restore the true classics to education...
...Irish are following the Yankees into racial indistinctness. Symptoms: 1) the decay of their birth rate; 2) their "almost complete urbanization...
Then up spoke Hugh R. Pomeroy, director of Virginia's State Planning Board: "I have examined slum areas from coast to coast and the slums of Philadelphia are probably the worst in the nation. . . . The heart of the city is decaying and the decay is spreading. [It can't be stopped] by buying streamlined garbage trucks...
America has been in a period of moral decay, according to Mumford, and it is high time that the public assume its duties of intelligent judgment and reasoning. Until each individual faces the problems of the immediate present, he cannot speak in terms of the future...