Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diaper with red, white and blue streamers to the very top of its flagstaff. Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed baby and an Aberdeen woman celebrated her 100th birthday with the wish that Britain's princeling might live to celebrate...
Planned Heat. The air conditions in a house, office or factory must suit the activities of the people who live or work there. The more physical work that is done, the more heat the body develops. A secretary or a housewife mending socks wants warmer air than is needed by a basketball player or a steelworker. Modern architects measure the requirements of each activity and devise a heat environment...
Last January, Helen, 22, married Robert Zimmerman, a childhood sweetheart. Both knew that she might not live long...
Year by year in the U.S., there are more & more old people. At 65, the average American white man still has twelve years and eight months to live; the average 65-year-old woman has 14½ years...
...terrifying paradox of the whole thing is this: Harlem itself, and every individual Negro in it, is a living condemnation of our so-called 'culture.' Harlem is there by way of a divine indictment against New York City and the people who live downtown and make their money downtown. The brothels of Harlem, and all its prostitution, and its dope rings, and all the rest are the mirror of the polite divorces and the manifold cultured adulteries of Park Avenue: they are God's commentary on the whole of our society. "Harlem is, in a sense, what...