Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " The public has been sandbagged and blackjacked both ways, coming and going, by the railroads." . . . The Government would con-duct the roads with some regard for the health and comfort of the public...
...needed, and at best it would serve only those whose religious wants were least, in need of tending. Dormitories and a gymnasium, on the other hand, are vitally necessary to make the University effective in carrying for ward its best ideals. The dormitory for fellowship, the gymnasium for physical health and sportsmanship--either would represent one of the most admirable qualities of the men it commemorated. It would encourage similar qualities in the young men who come after, and it would be actively before all the students as a significant reminder...
...Asquith, proposing O'Connor's health, said that when he joined the House in 1886 " Tay Pay" was already " a firmly rooted institution...
...fine etching for half a dollar; in short those who once had a little leisure or money and who could transmit and enlarge the nation's fund of knowledge and beauty, how do they live ? " An example: "... a man, let us say, with two children and in good health, has managed to get a Government position at 400,000 marks a month ($8.20). This is an exceptionally good salary and is a trifle better than that of a skilled workman in unoccupied Germany. " His rent for a four-room apartment is about 60 cents a month. But coal . . . consumes...
...Poor health and the Cox catastrophe relegated F. D. Roosevelt to the comparative seclusion of Long Island. But he is no longer an invalid. " See young Roosevelt about it" was once a byword in Washington, as it now is in the World of Construction, our second-biggest industry...