Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...
...news lately because Harold LeClair Ickes, an eminent Washington politician, lighted on one of Pearl's researches in another field in an attempt to show that U. S. newspapers avoid certain types of news. Dr. Pearl had concluded that tobacco impairs a smoker's chances for long life; umbrageous Secretary Ickes felt that this finding was insufficiently reported in the press, a view which Dr. Pearl himself failed to share (TIME, Jan. 23). Longevity and population are only two of Raymond Pearl's major interests. Others are nutrition, death, eugenics, diseases of poultry...
...Detailed information on TIME'S Index, its record in past years and the principles used in compiling it, may be obtained by writing the Editor of TIME, TIME & LIFE Building, New York City...
...feel," wrote Hino, "that the enemy soldiers whom we are killing look so much like us that we could be neighbors." When his company narrowly missed annihilation, he confessed: "I was seized with violent rage that precious life could be damaged so easily. . . . We soldiers are not only sons of men, but also husbands and fathers. We are human beings. . . . This is not the first time for me to have this sort of feeling. It is one of the most commonplace thoughts on the field of battle...
...psychologists, is to be judged by your adjustment to your social environment. If the psychologists are right, then the big books of etiquette are, next to success stories, the most neurosis-making books current. For nowhere else can you find advice more irrelevant to the modern mode of life...