Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years immigration outweighed by far the natural increase of the population. It does so no longer. Despite a birth rate which has fallen irregularly since Depression's onset in 1931, U. S. births are this year estimated to exceed deaths by 916,000-, while immigration exceeded emigration by only...
...solve his problem, Mr. Rice places Frank Dale, a Captain in the Spanish-American War, as the last male member of an old American family in the town which bears his grand-father's name, Dalesford, Connecticut. Captain Dale can no longer run his shoe factory at a profit, and his farm produces next to nothing; seventy-four years old, he wishes to liquidate what few assets he has, move his daughter-in-law and grand-daughters to Florida, and spend his last days peacefully in the sun. When he has made his decision, the embodied ghosts of his progenitors...
...broadcast band. The DuMont transmitter has been reduced to a relatively modest three-mega-cycle sprawl. The DuMont transmitting system is said to throw its pictures well beyond television's paltry 50-mile effective range. This it has done in the laboratory through its ability to use longer wave lengths which are effective beyond the horizonwide limit of television's usual ultrashort waves, hopes to reproduce the stretch in actual telecasting. And for DuMont receivers it is claimed that no likely changes in television standards can make their newest designs obsolete...
Twitted about his age, lusty, muscular Moriz Rosenthal replies: "A man is young if a lady can make him happy or unhappy. He enters middle age when a lady can make him happy, but no longer unhappy. He is old and gone if a lady can make him neither happy nor unhappy. Well, I am still a young...
Still significant, but no longer raging among scientists, is the Vitalism v. Mechanism controversy. Parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, has long been recognized in certain worms, crustaceans, plant lice, and many artificial parthenogenesis experiments have been performed with mechanical or chemical stimulation...