Word: num
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although he tells me that his family moved to Brattleboro shortly after, where his playwright father worked in the house later occupied by Kipling. He studied at Harvard and in Europe. He traveled widely. He taught and lectured. He has planned pageants such as Caliban. He has written any num-ber of odes for this and that celebration. He has written as ambitious a narrative poem as Dogtown Common. Two of his books have become operas and both have been sung by major organizations. Now he has buried himself in the Kentucky mountains where, with Mrs. Mac-Kaye...
During 1923 the deaths of 2,750 physicians were recorded in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Although the sources of its statistics make it seem likely that the figures are accurate, the Journal adds 2% for delayed reports and possible omissions, making the total reported num-ber 2,621. Forty physicians died under 30 years of age; 703 between 61 and 70; 513 between 71 and 80; 218 between 80 and 90; 33 between 91 and 100 and one lived to be 102. The greatest number of deaths for a given age occurred at 68 years, 79 being...
Professor McDougall has announced the subject of his address tomorrow as "Psychic Research," and it is probable that he will discuss in particular the recent questionnaire which was sent out to 1500 members of the University to determine what proportion of that num-had ever experienced mental telepathy or thought transference...
...must be understood that the M. T. U. (Marine Transport Workers) are violently opposed to the I. S. U. (International Seamen's Union) and .the Federation of Labor (which they call the Fakeration). The same num-ber of The Marine Worker refers to the pie-cards (i. e. paid officials) of the I. S. U. as " these vermin/' speaks of their " slimy tactics," calls them grafters and pimps and other names. Ships' officers are termed " crimps" (i. e. men who sign seamen on ships), and " scissorbills " (conservatives, not members of the I. W. W.), and "finks" (scabs...
...objects are only relatively noble. There are intelligent people who believe in war as a spiritual Katharsis and who have held to that belief in spite of the years 1914 to 1918. And there are intelligent people who believe in communism and atheism and easy divorce and a num-ber of other creeds and panaceas which the Congregational and Baptist Churches would hardly countenance. If the teaching of one faith is justifiable, the teaching of any faith is justifiable and the question is simply one of majorities and minorities...