Word: livings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soil men laugh at the Neo-Malthusian doctrine that man must adapt himself to soil, and live with it as helplessly as wildlife. Man is not the servant of the soil, they say. He is its master...
...countries really overpopulated? It depends on what is meant. A handful of primitive savages, who live by hunting, can "overpopulate" an enormous area of fertile country. They eat up all the food available to them, though the land over which they roam could support, if turned to farming, many hundred thousand people...
...Postoffice. The Moscow festivities were the windup of a month-long celebration of Komsomol accomplishments in which praise and exhortation were about equally mixed. Aram Khachaturian's young son Karen, a fledgling composer himself, published a cantata, Youth! Live Long and Blossom! Celebrating in their own way, members of the Chkalov Air Club made a record parachute jump without oxygen equipment, from 21,325 feet...
...next to Ana Pauker she was probably the leading woman Communist in Europe. By last week, after Leino had openly criticized Russia and suggested that the Communists use less violent tactics, Hertta had had enough. She picked up bag & baggage and moved out of his apartment to go and live with her mother. She still had friends: who had turned up in Finland but first husband Tuure, once again in high Kremlin favor and wearing the insignia of a Red army general. Last week he was in Helsinki, busily plotting a wave of new strikes to blanket Finland...
...place in preventive medicine is secure. It kills the mosquitoes that carry malaria, the flies that carry cholera, the lice that carry typhus, the fleas that carry the plague, the sand flies that carry kalaazar and other tropical diseases. Because of DDT, the tropics are becoming safer places to live; because of it typhus was no serious threat in World...