Word: eugenist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of extreme slowness and extreme cruelty. But it is blind and mechanical; and accordingly its products are just as likely to be esthetically, morally, or intellectually repulsive to us as they are to be attractive or worthy of imitation. . . . For the statesman or the eugenist to copy its methods is both foolish and wicked...
...Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate nurse "most perfect in looks, charm, poise, intelligence." Winner: Helen Clark, 22, well-dressed Tucson, Ariz, brunette. Eugenist Paul Popenoe of Pasadena's Institute of Family Relations, father of four, stirred bitter merriment among the nurses by pontificating: "To increase the number of superior children each year, educated young people should be encouraged to marry by increasing the circle of their acquaintances, by developing the social life of students (this...
...Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History indicates that Japan's 124 Goddess-descended Emperors have been happy to accept from the fighting Fujiwara Clan a phenomenally long number of Fujiwara women as Empresses. Today a eugenist would probably say that the Son of Heaven is in flesh & blood more of a Fujiwara than anything else. Against the great and almost divine Prince Konoye it was unthinkable to most Japanese last week that the Army could stand. Yet the Prince is democratic, seemingly a perfect...
...Interior Frick said that during the War, while the best men of all embattled nations were at the front, "an increased facility of reproducing themselves was afforded to the weaklings." Thus the present generation of post-War youth is to be regarded generally askance, thinks Dr. Frick, and Nazi eugenists' plans for breeding Germans like prize cattle are especially vital. In prompt agreement, Dr. Knud A. Wieth-Knudsen, Norway's eugenist at the Congress, cried: "The intellectual currents which have dominated Scandinavian countries for the past 50 years?namely Liberalism, Radicalism and Feminism?are to blame for the decreasing birth...
Last fortnight a eugenist reported that women loaded with lactic acid would bear daughters while alkaline women bore sons (TIME, Sept...