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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entitled Old Spain for Macmillan & Co. It appeared month ago in two volumes, but no reviewer received a copy. One of the most expensive sets ever published, it is limited to 250 copies, priced at $550 apiece. For their money each subscriber receives two new Muirhead Bone dry points free...
...months. In the next decade Massachusetts spent more than $2,000,000 on school buildings and equipment, established 50 new public high schools. Gradually Mann's influence spread to other states through his famed annual reports. In 1830 only three states (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire) supported free elementary schools. By 1848 when the Massachusetts Secretary was ready to give up his job to return to politics, the public school movement was awakening over the land and Horace Mann was a national figure...
...anti-Slavery Whig. In 1850 he wrecked what might have been a promising political career by breaking with Daniel Webster after that statesman's "Seventh of March Speech," advocating a compromise on the extension of slavery to the Northern territories. In 1852 Mann was defeated as the Free-Soil candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Same year he returned to education by accepting the presidency of New Antioch College...
...York City's Health Commissioner John Levi Rice, who does more than any other municipal health officer to support the Parran campaign, last week revealed another new method in the U. S. fight against venereal disease. The 827 municipal clinics throughout the U. S. where venereals may receive free or cheap treatment, get only a fraction of the victims. Of the rest, some do not know that they are infected, while the rest shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops...
...first importance is the attempt at the Mt. Washington observatory to translate mountain observations into data for ordinary "free" upper air at the same height above flat ground. The weather forecaster needs a continuous record, day and night, in all kinds of weather, of conditions in the upper air. At present the only method of obtaining these data is by expensive airplane fights or balloon ascents at intervals of hours or days; these do not give a continuous record and are not practicable in bad weather when records are most needed. They are well on their way towards ironing...