Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This report was accepted last week by the lower criminal court at Ellwangen, Württemberg, when it handed down for the first time a verdict based on the blood test method of determining parentage. The court, thoroughgoing, suppressed all names, to protect the honor of the man unjustly accused, then sentenced the scheming young woman to six months' imprisonment...
...time† in the ten years he has been in the U. S., Professor Auer was appearing in public-not in his own behalf but to lend importance to the debut of another pupil, Benno Rabinof. Eight years ago he had taken him, a prodigy of Manhattan's lower East Side, taught him the technic taught, of the he violin. As he had been taught, so he played at his debut-the Elgar Concerto & Tschaikovsky's in D with 60 men from the Philharmonic, a Debussy-Paganini-Bethoven group with the piano. His tone was full, his fingers...
...more than 870 national corporations with branch plants, warehouses or sales offices there, was delighted. The Industrial Bureau advertised: "Here is one location they [transplanted concerns] found abundant raw materials. The finest type of labor in the world-willing, intelligent Anglo-Saxons. Plentiful plant sites. Ample hydro-electric power. Lower building costs. Invigorating climate, permitting efficient, year-round production . . . 8 great railroad systems, with 15 main lines...
...bawdiness. No English wives who bore children on the duodecimal system learned that any protection existed. They asked their gossips, they told their gossips, what little information disseminated through the country. Women of the upper class learned fairly accurate data; their birth rates declined quickly. Women of the lower social levels received faulty and sometimes harmful instruction. A Malthusian League was formed...
Voters. He might have been struck by the full meaning of the revolution: the substitution of one privileged class for another; for, today, in Communist Russia the workers are the aristocracy, and the former aristocracy and the bourgeoisie rank even lower than did the workers under the Tsars-they do not count at all. Only workers & peasants over the age of 18 can vote...