Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newcomers but scorns them as failures, thinks them something of a blight on the rugged country he loves. Inspired by a blonde who acts like an amalgam of Joan of Arc and a visiting sociologist, the men "come to their senses" when their children fall sick by the dozen. They put up a hospital in 24 hours (offstage). The overseer changes his mind about having them sent back, sits down to talk over development plans. Near the final curtain, inevitably, a colonist rushes onstage to announce the first birth...
...these outbreaks be avoided? The solution is not a simple one. In past years, when the route of food from producer to consumer was direct and the food passed through few hands, little difficulty was encountered. Now our milk comes from Vermont, and passes through a dozen processes before we drink it. Meat comes from Chicago, fresh vegetables from South Carolina and Texas, fruit from Florida, Oregon, or the tropics. How is it possible to keep all this food clean and fresh and pure? The Federal Government aids by an elaborate system of inspection of inter-state shipment of food...
...gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there was the fine etching of Degas friend and pupil, Mary Cassatt in the Louvre. For balletomanes there were half a dozen pastel studies of the saucy, bandy-legged little dancing girls on which Degas fame chiefly rests...
...follows it automatically, is thus likely to be drawn into intersectional crashes. The doctor suggested that there should be a signal to the eye which would warn the brain of an intersection ahead. Last week, Engineer Dorsey's idea of a good signal was amazing drivers at some dozen dangerous crossings in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley section...
...Oklahoma three weeks ago a half-dozen jailbirds ran away from prison to escape sterilization provided by law. In California last summer the daughter of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt failed to have two doctors jailed for spaying her under her mother's orders (TIME, Aug. 31).* Twenty-five other States, two Canadian provinces, one Mexican state, one Swiss canton, and five European countries have laws permitting or ordering the sterilization of criminals and mentally incompetent persons. In general, the effort is to prevent transmission of evil to children and children's children...