Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reichstag was draped in black, his desk piled high with flowers, but the instinctive reaction of editors and public alike was "Who in Germany can take his place?" Said Berlin's Socialist Vorwärts: "The problem of finding a worthy successor to Dr. Stresemann is one of life and death to Germany...
...laborers in his truck gardens, holds a virtual monopoly of the Calcutta vegetable market. Last week, pondering his own potency, the great Roy Mukerji Das sent a letter to officials of the Calcutta Markets Committee: "Honored Gentlemen: "Herewith I make application to erect at my own expense a life-sized marble statue of the undersigned in the centre of the Calcutta Central Market. It is my intention to engage a leading British or English sculptor to depict me seated among my vegetables and holding a prize cabbage in one hand (left) and a giant carrot in the other (right). "Your...
...public wants speed. . . . This Council can save lives by urging States to remove their maximum speed laws so that motorcycle policemen will stop chasing fast cars that are imperiling no one and devote themselves to removing the reckless driver from the highways." Said Louis Dublin, famed statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. "That was the most outrageous talk I ever heard. Mr. Hoffman's doctrine is at the bottom of our troubles. I have known that automobile manufacturers had such thought in their hearts, but this is the first time I ever met one who dared to preach such...
About 5,000 people in the U. S. claim to be 100 or older. Most of them unintentionally exaggerate, said Louis Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statistician who hastened from the National Safety Council meeting at Chicago last week to the American Public Health Association Convention at Minneapolis. To the health officers he named 80 as the maximum age to which most people could aspire. Medical, public health and sanitary work the past half century has increased the average life of the whole population by 20 years, but has not been able to prevent senility and the deterioration...
...conduct instead of the principles derived from religion. "What manner of church is it that can appeal to souls living in this age? It is only a worshipping, teaching, practicing, creative church whose members are prepared to mark themselves off from all outsiders by a different manner of life affecting all their financial, domestic, civic and social relations, forcing them into constant protest against the present sub-Christian* order and making them ready to dare all for Christ's sake...