Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appearances, your magazine is subsidized in the main, by the fanatics who have now self-imposed themselves in Germany...
...main point of difference between the Colleges and the Houses is that at Yale there are no tutors. To President Lowell, the House Plan represented the ideal setting for the working out of the tutorial system and the logical consequence of the system. The College Plan has preceded the tutors, however, in New Haven. The Colleges are not with out resident members of the faculty since a Master and about ten "fellows" reside in each unit. The fellows resemble tutors much more than they do the "associates" of the Harvard Houses, since they live in the Colleges and meet...
...Benito Mussolini, the Duce who has mastered Italian politics so thoroughly that his main interest now lies in turning the state into a business run efficiently by businessmen, pushed preparations last week to cut out what he has come to think of as Italy's political appendix, the Chamber of Deputies...
...impress the President and Congress, Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee called an "American Conference on Birth Control & National Recovery," to meet in Washington Jan. 15-17. Main argument: "With 3,500,000 American families dependent on relief for their bare subsistence, there has arisen an acute need for speed in removing the legal restrictions which hamper the poor families in their natural desire to curtail increase which only aggravates suffering and piles up still more enormous problems of public and private charity." Mrs. Sanger reports a "vast amount of bootlegging has sprung up" in contraceptive supplies. Contraceptive clinicians will...
...placed by the most optimistic statistician at $660, and other experts who have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once a street of comparatively modest tastes, of some show of decorum . . . has degenerated into something resembling the main drag of a frontier town. . . . Broadway has become a basement bargain counter...