Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Dr. Ogburn observed that trend analysis had enabled U. of C. investigators to estimate the probability of parole violations, of happy or unhappy marriages. Such predictions do not take account of individual exceptions, but-like the death rate statistics of insurance actuaries, who are also social scientists- hold good for large numbers of subjects...
...Some day when an audience has cooperated fully with me in giving a good performance, I am going to answer their applause for my concertizing by applauding them for good listening...
Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken...
...slip, was soon turning out waltzes to beat the band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...
Meantime, October railroad carloadings were up 18.7% over last year. This was not surprising. For 15 years, whether traffic is good or bad, trucks have tended to do a little better than railroads. In 1925, when anybody with enough spare cash for a second-hand truck could go into the trucking business, trucks carried less than 2% of all U. S. freight. The rest was taken care of by the railroads (76%), waterways (17%), pipe lines (5%). By 1937 trucks were up to 5%, railroads down to 66%, and the process apparently still goes...