Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of children who have been injured and killed by automobiles is deplorable," said President Coolidge, contributing his voice to a crusade by Washington newspapers for "sane" driving in the Capital. The American Road Builders Association last week reported that automobiles killed 26,618 persons in 1927; maimed...
...figure "circulated" by Senator Wagner was 4,000,000 workers out of work. Secretary Davis' figure was 1,874,050. This figure which included voluntary idleness (coal strikers etc.) had been arrived at by subtracting the estimated number of persons now earning wages and salaries, from the number of earners in 1925, a year not noted for unemployment. Making no allowance for an increase in this U. S. working population since 1925, the figures suggested that for each worker now out of a job, there are 12 that have jobs...
...Republican campaign funds (TIME, March 12 et seq.). He went to dicker with the newly created French State Board of Film Censors (TIME, Feb. 27) which has intimated that it will license U. S. films for sale in France only upon condition that the U. S. buy a proportionate number of French films for exhibition...
This enlarged meeting of the International Missionary Council is the successor of the Continuation Committee of the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. The number of delegates who will attend it is far smaller, but, while the Edinburgh Conference was almost entirely peopled by Americans and Europeans, the Jerusalem Conference includes natives from India, Siam, Ceylon, Japan and other remote districts. The U. S. delegates include famed Dr. Robert Russa Moton, head of Tuskegee Institute, who will talk about Negroes...
...mean a facility in reading French or German. Scarcely, if at all, better are the special language examinations. A little luck in hitting a passage seen somewhere before, a knack of guessing at words and construction under the pressure of necessity--these and other factors have aided a large number of students through language examinations who would flounder indignantly a month later in a fifty page assignment in the same languages...