Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dread of that New York organized a Board of Health that set about teaching the new world the a, b, c of sanitation. Pigs were banished from streets and cellars, and that first year 40,000 windows were cut to let light into 40,000 tenement bedrooms that were dark and unventilated. Forty years we have wrestled with the powers of darkness and at last the law forbids the building of a tenement with a dark and airless room in it. The day is coming when it will forbid a man to own one. Meanwhile the sanitarians are trying...
...efficiency along this line was superior to what it had ever before been in the United States Navy. Speaking of the new ships now being built, he brought out the fact that the United States was building not because war was wanted, but because war is contemplated as a dread possibility. Mr. Moody closed with an appeal for American citizens to find out what they could do for the country and then to do it to the best of their ability...