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...seasonal trend on Chicago conceptions and last week, in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, was able to state that almost every Chicago baby conceived in calm July, August and September was born perfect. But babies conceived in stormy March and April showed an abnormal percentage of abnormalities-imperfect spines, cleft palates, club feet...
...object is an oyster shell containing an imperfect pearl built around the remains of an eel. If the pearl substance had been fashioned into a perfect sphere, says Mr. DeMille, the result would have been the largest, most valuable pearl in history...
...fall off in 1928, it neither laid off men nor cut wages or hours until 1931. Then it cut hours 10%, later wages. Then, too, its workers began to grumble about working conditions: sandblasting was hazardous to the lungs; work at the kilns was deadly hot; penalties for imperfect work were too heavy. Last August the plant for the first time laid off men. Almost at once a local A. F. of L. union was established in the plant, followed, a month later, by a company union. Fortnight ago the A. F. of L. union demanded: 1) the sole right...
...confirmation he plotted Federal statistics of malformed children who died in first year, of imperfect men drafted for the War. The State of Washington showed the greatest proportion of dead malformed infants. Proceeding eastward the traced of these dead babies "can be traced beginning in Colorado, passing through Kansas, spreading to include the Great Lakes region and ending in New England, where Vermont presents the highest rate. When we proceed north beyond the regions of cyclones and to a maritime type of climate, Newfoundland for instance, the rate drops." Southern States where the climate is equable, have a negligible number...
...sense of incredulity is quite excusable. Yet the facts ARE facts--and into the bargain they are quite easily explicable. In this present imperfect world nations have yet found no agreement upon practical methods of disarming. So long as they refuse to, the easiest way for them to stay armed is to permit a full exploitation of private profit system in the manufacture of armaments. By this device nations avoid the expense and annoyance of maintaining plants and inventories of armaments throughout a period of twenty years when perhaps they may never be needed at all; the private armorer meanwhile...