Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the Public Health Service, who guards the health of the nation's 120,000,000 people, made his annual accounting to Congress last week...
...states to a conference. Most of them attend and from his quiet, pointed talks get stamina to suppress disease within their districts. But six or seven states are so careless of their epidemiological work that their statistics are rarely considered in Dr. Cumming's survey of the nation's health. In the two score and more who habitually report, last year there were 4,000 needless deaths from measles, 7,000 from whooping cough. Infantile paralysis was a scourge chiefly because its prodromal symptoms are ignored and its after-effects ignorantly fought...
...seems to Heywood Broun of the Class of 1910 that when Harvard beats Yale, that's news. So this week his trenchant page in the Nation is one long, but strangely two-headed complaint of the intense rivalry between the universities. The more vociferous head roars a regular Harvard cheer white its meek twin now and then barks faintly that this should not be so, and becomes full-throated only in the crescendo of a mutual anti-Princeton feeling intimated just above the signature...
...bare breeze riffled the three flags atop the nation's law factory. The air was mild and misty. Many people, spectators, workers, newsmen, scurried around the wide plazas. Big autos zipped back and forth importantly...
...only men but gold emigrates to Argentina, which, paradoxically, was named by exploring Spaniards after the silver (argenta) which they expected but failed to find in her mountains. Last year Argentina borrowed more U. S. dollars than any other nation. Most of them she spent on developing the low-lying, fertile Pampas and the highland grazing grounds of Patagonia (see Map). To her especial credit is the fact that Argentina also spends millions on schools and public works, and possesses today the most literate population in South America...