Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these reports added up to little more than propaganda. There was no authentic evidence of revolt in Germany last week, or even of the desire to revolt. Life had merely become harder. In Berlin, where last fortnight crowds appeared stunned and silent, the crowds had disappeared. The people were too busy to stand in crowds. Women were beginning to run trams and busses as men went to the front (during a blackout two streetcars crashed headon, injuring ten passengers). Women sold newspapers and delivered mail. The Nazi uniform all but disappeared from the streets and field grey took its place...
Ginjiro Fujiwara, Japan's "Paper King" (he virtually controls the production of newsprint), Japan's most positive and noisy industrialist, was also along. A notorious labor-baiter, the Paper King writes sanctimonious essays praising Japan's simple life (i. e., low standard of living), exulting in the fact that even Cabinet Ministers get paid only the equivalent of $200 a month. The Paper King told newspapers that he was out to master the German economy. "I will understand it in one glance of it, being the veteran industrialist served this world for 45 years now," he said...
...kind of college, which he calls "The University of Tomorrow." Believing that college courses had become too specialized for most students, he taught his misfits such broad subjects as biography, "euthenics" (problems of the home). He also undertook to find out all he could about his students-their home life, incomes, diversions, problems, hopes. But Dr. MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status was not enough; he had to know their future problems. To find out what they would need to know after college, he went to the horse's mouth, asked college men and women...
...Most frequent sparetime activities were 1) reading newspapers, 2) conversation with family, 3) hobnobbing with cronies, 4) listening to the radio (favorite programs: news, football games, Charlie McCarthy), 5) reading magazines (favorites: Reader's Digest, TIME, LIFE...
...most wanted: 1) a happy married life, 2) financial success, 3) security for old age, 4) a comfortable standard of living, 5) making a good home. Women: 1) a happy married life, 2) a comfortable standard of living, 3) making a good home, 4) children they could be proud of, 5) travel and adventure...