Word: expectancy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disapprove but do not write think it is possible to keep children from seeing the human body unclothed? Must children and adults wear blinders when they visit the traveling Van Gogh Exhibit? Must we as parents and teachers strive to keep children innocent and at the same time expect them to find their way in the world when they leave the protection of the home? My six-year-old son looks at TIME pictures (news and advertising) regularly and of course sees the nude pictures along with the others. Sunday Morning (TIME, May 11) aroused mild curiosity on his part...
Seven men suffer coronary thrombosis to one woman. Women are stricken later in life than men. A first attack kills them more often than it does men. But, if a woman survives such a heart attack, she may expect to live three years longer than a man similarly stricken and surviving. Dr. Willius finds it "difficult to understand the reasons for the great discrepancy in incidence of coronary thrombosis between the two sexes. After a critical analysis of the known factors, one is obliged to seek a possible explanation in the presumable superior biologic heritage of the female...
Harvard was in just such a position. Since 1909 it has been slowly building up the personnel, equipment, and organization which in 1929 crystallized in the present School of Regional Planning. No other professional school, for the training of men who expect to meet such problems, exists. With the destruction of the present institution, the fruit of this long period of labor will be largely dissipated...
...private estate work has been reduced by the economic situation to a very low point during the past few years, but the desire to have better and more attractive surroundings is so inherent a trait in this country that it would seem to be within reason to expect this phase of the landscape professional work to return to somewhere near its former amount within a few years
...offer a sobering thought in our program of promoting the consumption of agricultural goods by industry," observed Vice President Morris Sayre of Corn Products Refining Co. "There are encouraging indications that the future will bring more rapid progress, but I do not believe this nation should be led to expect industrial miracles which would suddenly gobble up more agricultural goods than the farmer can produce...