Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The following account is of an incident which occurred ... on board the U.S.S. Texas, Flagship. It was reported from Balboa, Canal Zone on Feb. 9.
The significance of the incident was that one important Governmental agency accepted in passim the League's contraceptive activities as normal and acceptable in present U. S. culture.
Apart from the waste of time incident upon the crowded conditions and the impossibility of any extra time at the end of the hour in which the instructor may answer questions, it is apparent that with the considerable increase in registration that will accompany the inauguration of the House Plan...
Now there is no sin in the communication of truth in this way. Where the fact, however probable, still waits the confirmation of circumstance, to publish it abroad was impolitic, but that charge is the heaviest than can be made against the informant. The incident, has, however, a larger significance...
The whole incident becomes utterly grotesque when one asks, "Well, what is the 'situation' which Sir Austen so brusquely declared 'unchanged'?"