Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the National City Bank acquired another title of magnitude, the ultimate title, in fact, of "biggest in the world." Its merger with the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co. swelled its resources to $2,386,066,401, a total sufficient to nose out the former "biggest," London's Midland Bank, Ltd., by a bare 83 million...
Maternal Mortality. Their greatest concern was the fact that the U. S., whose women pay the highest medical fees in the world and therefore presumably get the best care, has the highest maternal mortality rate among civilized nations. For every 2,000 children born alive in the U. S. 13 mothers die. The rate per thousand is in England & Wales 3.8; Scotland 5.8; Germany 5.3; Italy 2.7; Scandinavian countries 2.6; Holland 2.3 (the lowest). Of U. S. maternal deaths, 65% are due to blood-poisoning contracted at the time of delivery or immediately after. Other mortal causes include lack...
Birth Control is "the most dangerous subject on which the medical profession can express itself," Association President George Van Amber Brown dared to state. Honest, he repeated the popularly known fact that educated U. S. men and women generally know effective means of contraception. He urged birth-control knowledge for uneducated people. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of the University of Iowa would have the state do the educating. Said he: "Only one argument exists against teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women...
...Paulo. Later he journeyed to the Instituto Butantan, where he delivered a short address to the staff. Sao Paulo is an agricultural state in which nearly three-fourths of the world's coffee is grown; the climate is also favorable to animal life and because of this fact, several species of poisonous reptiles abound there. With the purpose in view of reducing the large number of fatalities resulting annually from snakebite the Instituto Butantan has a large group of herpetologists engaged in perfecting an anti-venin for snake bites. It was to this staff that Dr. Allen spoke...
...deck immediately to give expert instruction to all members of the University interested in handball which also starts today. Mr. Conley, will, as usual, give instruction in boxing during the winter months. Wrestling classes will not be started until the early part of November owing to the fact that C. J. Gallagher, newly appointed instructor in wrestling is assisting in fall track during September and October...