Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Social Hygiene Association Inc. (Wed. 1:45 p. m. NBC-Blue) gives the floor to Eleanor Roosevelt, a medal to U. S. Surgeon-General Thomas Parran...
...plane designers and engine builders expected a pat on the back from the Army Air Corps for their performance as of 1939, they were disappointed last week when Major General Henry H. Arnold, baldish Chief of Air Corps, sat down before the House Military Affairs Committee to sketch the needs of the nation's air defenses...
...them, it was estimated by the Education Department's business agent, one George H. Varney, would cost $16,500. When contracts for hurricane repair work, signed by Mr. Reardon, reached $410,232, the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Association decided to investigate. What the federation discovered caused Attorney General Paul Dever to investigate and stop payment on most of the contracts and Governor Saltonstall last fortnight to demand Mr. Reardon's resignation. His charge: "You are incompetent and unfit...
Inferiority. But Anthropologist Hooton's basic finding is no spoofing. He says that a number of anthropological features mark off criminals in the mass from the general population, and different classes of criminals from one another. These features do not occur uniformly enough for individual diagnosis of a criminal type; but simply by occurring more frequently in the large groups of which they are characteristic, they serve, when statistically analyzed, to set aside these groups as anthropologically distinct...
Some of his conclusions: the whole class of criminals in general is marked off from the civilian population by organic inferiority. "Old American" criminals (native-born whites of native parentage) tend to be smaller and lighter, to have shorter and broader faces, narrower jaws, more sloping shoulders, longer and thinner necks. To the trained anthropologist the dimensions and contours of their heads and faces are sometimes suggestive of retarded development, sometimes of the retention of primitive features, and often of conservatism which may be described as evolutionary rigidity or a failure to conform to modern trends of physical change." Whether...