Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance written this year (23.7% below 1929). $1,924,666,000-paid on death claims since 1929. $2,048,000,000-the amount of policy loans since 1929 (now 18.4% of assets). Good news was the fact that the average expectancy of life of a newborn U. S. babe is now 60 years, up five whole years from 1922. While the insurance presidents were hearing these figures a plan was being shaped which may elevate a newcomer to power in the industry. He is Julius Howland Barnes, close friend and onetime business partner of Herbert Clark Hoover. Everybody knew...
...laws of most States, silver nitrate, Argyrol, or some other silver salt must be put in the eyes of newborn babes to disinfect the mucous membrane, prevent blindness. Its manufacture is very simple. For years Dr. Barnes turned out the world's supply of genuine Argyrol in a little ramshackle factory which had just eight employes: five white women, three colored men. He never employed more than 20 people. Argyrol leaves the factory in the form of minute crystals. Little drops of water, little grains of Argyrol, made the mighty Dr. Barnes (six ft. high, 200 Ib.) a multimillionaire...
...Fentress, a Texas chain which has employed Publisher Andersen for the past twelve years. Most of the old Register staff have been employed by the Times. Publisher Andersen will motor the 550 mi. between Orlando, where he has an 11-month-old baby, and Mobile where he has a newborn newspaper...
...rocking camel-litter with her heels, impatient to arrive. The purpose of her pilgrimage is both political and personal. In the land of Sheba, dynastic laws require that rulership repose exclusively in the hands of virgins. Hitherto the ruling virgins had propagated their royal race by divine miracle-a newborn babe would be discovered in the temple by the priests, and at the same time the virgin breasts of the queen would miraculously begin to give milk. But no such luck befell Balkis, even though, at the priest's request, a god once visited her disguised in human flesh...
...about the True, discover Truth's elation, it is necessary for a man to read philosophy, more necessary for him to think philosophically. To accomplish this feat the Abbe suggests that a man try to put himself in Adam's bare feet, look at the world with newborn eyes, try to answer the whys and hows his mind will naturally ask. That is philosophy. Its reward is less in getting questions answered than in a man's growing ability to ask higher and deeper questions. The Abbe illustrates his method by questions & answers in his book, suggests...