Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the magazine had begun to deteriorate editorially, 1920 found it at the peak (up to then) of its fortunes and with about one million circulation. (It had been bought from the Collier estate by Crowell Publishing Co.) Then came evil days?a business depression, a paper shortage, a printers' strike. For a few weeks the magazine actually failed to appear. By 1922 Collier's, definitely inferior in content, had tumbled to th place in general magazine advertising. In two years its revenues fell off more than 80%. Making matters worse, into the 5f field came Liberty...
Lewis is noted for his investigations into unemployment conditions with particular regard to methods necessary for the elimination of the evil. He is author of the bill calling for unemployment insurance, which is now pending in the Massachusetts legislature...
...Education adopts a plan it is considering for a special school for children of marked ability. The mass production methods of American education have justly been under fire, and the regimentation of all types of mind in the big public schools has been the extreme example of the evil...
Even if a boy, the babe would still have received a sword, its significance being "to ward off evil." Being a girl, the pink babe was also presented with a purple skirt, "emblematic of femininity." She was then turned over to her two wet nurses, wives of army officers. Diligent, they have been studying Yamato Kotoba, the special court language, for months, will be able to address the suckling princess properly...
There is no doubt but that the American colleges of today are overcrowded, with evil effects for all concerned, but the restriction proposed at Yale seems to be of questionable value. After correlating secondary school and college records, the Yale Board of Admissions has found that those who finish their preparation in four years are more successful in college than those who require an extra period. On the basis of this fact the Board recommends that admission be limited to those who finish preparatory school in schedule time...