Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan the American Birth Control League conducts a clinic to instruct poor mothers "for health reasons."* New York State laws permit that. Dr. James F. Cooper is medical director of the clinic. He found that uninstructed, desperate mothers had been enduring abortions. Ten abortions for a woman was a common number. One woman admit ted 40. In England the Malthusian League, conducts a similar clinic for poor women. Other countries have them. Those better off, as in the U. S., themselves must collect information...
...University will realize that as a faithful picture of Harvard life it is even funnier than Metro-Goldwyn's tribute. And those who are neither members nor graduates nor friends will derive extraordinary delight from the Macfadden-like revelations of this particular example of "intrinsic vigor and communal health...
...Schools:" Unless the glass of that German school permits passage of ultraviolet light (see your good footnote), it is no better than any well-lighted U. S. schoolhouse, and your report is inane. You give as The Motive "to promote health ;" you give as The Story an esthetic appreciation of the structure. That is deceptive logic-very, very rare in TIME...
...that of America and Scandinavia; children have a primary consideration unknown elsewhere; and the whole machinery of the State is directed .toward raising the standards of living of the millions. No government in history has set out so deliberately and so successfully, to annihilate illiteracy, to build up mass health, to set its people economically free...
...definition of the happiest person as "he who thinks the most interesting thoughts." Following up this rather Aristolelian idea to its logical conclusions, with a human and good common sense which take from the subject much of its inherent moralizing. Professor Phelps discusses in turn education, old age, health wealth and bovine contentment and their relation to the universally desired happiness, with a result that the 50 pages of the little book contain almost as many interesting and withal surprisingly novel ideas...