Word: decent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though William Jay Schieffelin, vice president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, thought "LIFE rendered a public service by picturing in a decent way the facts about the birth of a baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights of Columbus complained to New York City's five county district attorneys. Result was that District Attorney Samuel L. Foley of The Bronx arrested four news dealers for selling...
...theory of the British Foreign Office that if it is to be prevented, by the Monroe Doctrine, from following its normal policy in dealing with backward countries in such affairs, then the least the U. S. can do is to see to it that the natives maintain a decent regard for Anglo-Saxon property rights...
...college days must be sacrificed to the god of experimentation, and as a result, he has little time for those cultural and broadening pursuits which are among the chief privileges of a college education. In many cases, even the bare minimum amount of exercise necessary to keep him in decent physical shape is denied him, while extracurricular activities are a luxury. Certainly some reduction in laboratory hours is indicated if he is expected to become the well-rounded and broadly cultured man which it is Harvard's and President Conant's aim to produce...
...Hoover Commission, leery of Federal control of the schools, vetoed Federal aid, even though it found some sections of the country too poor to afford a decent minimum of schooling. But Depression dramatized the "glaring inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile...
Although the University makes every effort to supply its employees with a decent wage, their salaries are not always sufficient to provide against disability outside the scope of workman's compensation. As an unfortunate result of this fact, they are hard pressed to pay hospital bills when they take sick or suffer a minor injury. Under the provisions of this new service, employees paying a small annual fee will be provided with bed care, examinations, and routine nursing service. A slightly larger premium will extend these facilities to members of their families...