Word: existant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the profession as well as the laity has a fuzzy conception of what a chronic disease is, there exist only two special private hospitals for chronic diseases in the U. S.-Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in New York City and Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston. Last week the recently resigned medical director of Montefiore, Dr. Ernst Philip Boas and his chief assistant published a meaty, precise book on the subject.* Special hospitals exist for insane and tuberculous chronics, but no hospitals, except at New York and Boston, for the vast number of those otherwise affected. The great...
Exactly what did he intend to do, they asked, about the Schutzbund-Heimwehr riots? Vienna, they pointed out, is an oversized city in an undersized country. She needs the tourist trade to exist. Vienna makes and sells fine porcelain, furniture, pearl buttons, meerschaum pipes, leather goods, luggage,* furs, jewelry. The great Vienna International Fair, Austria's semi-annual chance to make trade contacts with other countries would open in a few days. Without tourists, the fair could not succeed. What was the Chancellor going...
...National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses met in New York City last week and uttered plaints. The U. S. Negro population is about 10,000,000 and only 365 colored graduate nurses exist to look after their sickness. Only one of the 365 has a bachelor of science degree. Their number is small because not one Southern college offers them training. They must travel north for education. That entails an expense which few Negresses can afford. Scholarships help them out. Belle Davis, judicial-minded executive secretary of the National Health Circle for Colored People, explained the southern lack of nurse...
...TIME was concerned this great National organization just didn't exist, notwithstanding the fact that the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune and other papers had alert reporters on hand during the entire week. And yet, it is safe to estimate that that gathering, including many of the nation's most brilliant womanhood, represented a greater percentage of TIME readers than any similar group of men. Was TIME asleep during the week of July...
...work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small but [the textile industry] is a most highly competitive industry. There must be a profit in any industry or it will cease to exist. . . . Unionization is not the universal and complete panacea the American Federation of Labor would have you believe. Anyway, the unions aren't as strong as they used to be. . . . If the Southern textile owners and operators tie up with the labor unions, then they will see the textile industry...