Word: lesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Downtown Los Angeles has genuine smoke-stained old brick and stone buildings, jammed together as tightly as those of Philadelphia or Baltimore. Hundreds of old-fashioned clapboard houses stand uneasily in the sun along its older residential streets. But the visitor in 1949 is apt to stare at them less in recognition than in disbelief, like a wanderer pushing through the vine-hung ruins of Angkor-Thorn...
None of them gave the right answer. But Angelenos were sure that the problem -and all the rest of the city's problems-would be solved in good time. They had to be. City planners expect a population of 6,000,000 in greater Los Angeles by 1970. Less cautious citizens call the planners pikers, are certain that the city will eventually be the biggest in the world. And after that? Undoubtedly, its boosters mused, it would have another boom...
Many other Greeks wept too, less perhaps over Sophoulis than over Greece's past century...
...report, compiled over five years at a cost of ?200,000, contained some startling specific proposals which were probably less important than its broad analysis of population prospects. In its analysis, the report punches holes in two myths, one old, one new. The prewar myth was that Britain's birth rate would continue to decline, causing a drastic drop in Britain's population. The postwar myth was that Britain's tight balance of payments position required a drastic reduction of population by emigration ("With world supremacy gone, 40,000,000 people can't live on this...
...report is also concerned with relative reproduction trends of various groups within the population. It accepts evidence that intelligence is inherited. Consequently it views with some alarm the fact that less intelligent families reproduce at a higher rate than more intelligent families. To combat this trend it proposes two forms of government action: 1) using the National Health Service to give more birth control information to the lower income groups, and 2) tax exemptions and other incentives to encourage the professional classes to have more children...