Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pervades this symposium (only Stuart Chase is unqualifiedly pessimistic: he analyzes the passivity of fun?listening to radio instead of doing amateur singing, fiddling), but the optimism is qualified with a recognition of arrant abuses, grave dangers. Thus, the Webbs on Labor, McBain on Law and Government, Winslow on Health, Dorsey on Race, James Harvey Robinson on Religion, Lewis Mumford...
...None, it seems to me, is called for. The production justifies itself; it voices a typical Harvard impatience, whether well or ill founded makes no difference, and directs a perfectly legitimate undergraduate criticism at a subject of undergraduate, and University, importance. Criticism of any kind is a sign of health, implying not only intelligence, which may be assumed, but interest as well
...meetings there was a plethora of papers read. The papers were cogent, instructive, inspiring; but how effective they would be upon bureaucratic health officers was a common rhetorical question in many a Chicago hotel room...
...Bureau of Vital Statistics, New York Department of Health...
...newsprint recorded his achievements, mourned him. Editorial writers lauded him, decried his untimely end at 55. Among all these encomiums there was one dissenting voice. Said the Barron-bereaved Wall Street Journal, editorially: "His services were of the highest value and conditions today might have been different if his health had permitted undivided attention to his office for the past three months...