Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought about naturally by farmers who abandon their land on account of low prices. It may be brought about deliberately by diversification of crops and greater plantings of flax and sugar-beets?products which we now import. But, if it is necessary to increase the tariff on sugar to foster beet culture, there will be strong political opposition...
Reform the present burdensome, expensive legal system, restore trial by jury, abolish secret military courts, complete land purchases, foster industry and land reform and education, abolish censorship of the press...
Professor Charles Foster Kent, of Yale, collaborating with Henry A. Sherman, head of publisher Scribner's religious literature department, recently brought out a Children's Bible. This was severely attacked by Professor William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, who parodied Hamlet's soliloquy as follows: "I wonder whether or not I shall exist after death. Is it better to stick around a little longer or to try to win out by suicide ?" However, the Kent-Sherman Bible is considered the best in the children's field...
...Aurora, foster-child of the Bolsheviki...
...rest, the committee puts its trust in: 1) continuous education of the community in regard to the nature, dangers, treatment of venereal diseases; 2) the elimination of those conditions of life which tend to foster promiscuity and the spread of disease. The committee recommends special measures for the quarantine of seaports against persons' suffering from venereal diseases, for the treatment of infected seamen and for control and treatment of mental defectives. Thus, on the whole, the committee aligns itself with the more moderate wing of the social hygiene movement in England and the United States, which places the emphasis...