Word: good
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progeny, however, possesses a truly embarrassing gift. This is a change maker which, when presented with legitimate coin of the realm, silently and efficiently performs its functions. If, however, some thrifty and dishonest Briton insults it with a slug, a washer, the robot angry, cries: "Please use good coins only...
...people infected: 900,000 cases. Sanatorium beds existing for their care: 67,270. Result: doctors, nurses, public health officials and the N. T. A. must get after cases roaming at large. Between 3% and 4% of children have childhood tuberculosis. Half of those children overcome their infection (by rest, good food, outdoor life). The other half develop true pulmonary tuberculosis (the type that kills) when they become adolescents. About the same number of boys and girls, who never had the childhood form, catch it from others when they grow up. Three good means of diagnosis for early tuberculosis exist...
...Significance. By the unhappiness of Hans and Frau Grill, Novelist Edouard attempts to show the end of every peasant-noble union. Too good a psychologist, however, to prevent their becoming live individuals instead of idea-puppets, he succeeds in showing only that the couple were incompatible at times when many another husband or wife would have unearthed the remedy. He also shows how new people, people of money and power, took the place of the old nobility in his country. The social lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility...
...Kellogg Treaty lately solemnized in Paris between the U. S., Britain and 13 other nations, renouncing war. The 186, deeming this a super-treaty worthy of super-ratification, signed and last week issued a super-pledge called a "British-American Message to the Churches and to All People of Good Will." They said they accepted the Kellogg Treaty "in spirit and in fact" and would "discountenance any and all expressions or acts which contemplate as possible the use of any but pacific means for the settlement of disputes or conflicts, etc., etc." Super-pledge was longer than super-treaty...
...statement: "I am happy to come here ... to pay a tribute of admiration to my good friend . . . and through him to the great race which is proud and fortunate to count him among their...