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...quantity of news printed has increased about one-tenth. But this tenth includes a tripling in the volume of foreign news; a round half added to the volume of political news (this must be discounted since this is a Presidential year) ; about two and half times as much crime news; about one and a half times as much business news; about two and a third times as much sport news. The only kind of news which actually fell off in volume was society news, which was cut almost in half...
...policy is so divided that the insurance for Friday afternoon, the day of the trial races, will be $1500, and for Saturday, when the championship races, will be run, $6000. In order that this amount shall be paid by the insurance company, it is necessary for at least one-tenth of an inch of rainfall to have fallen within the six hours immediately preceding and during the meet...
...reduction and soldier bonus too. Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine. It is a most interesting example of mass hysteria. I never more enjoyed a clinic in mental nervous diseases. . . Children who act one-tenth as bad are punished...
...supports his charges by two quotations-one from Dr. John F. Murphy, in whose memory a hospital is being built in Chicago: "In fact it [outrageously neglected treatment of tuberculosis] borders on a crime." The other quotation is from Dr. Richard C. Cabot, Harvard: "I know from my own certain knowledge that the vast majority of physicians in Massachusetts cannot make a diagnosis of early tuberculosis. I do not believe that one-tenth of the physicians in any State can tell incipient tuberculosis when they see it from physicial signs...
...that which swept in waves over Europe at the close of the War, when the younger generation attempted to organize itself against the materialism of its elders. Sherwood Eddy, in support of this, said: "The movement is a protest against the old social order. Over Europe as a whole, one-tenth of the people possess approximately nine-tenths of the wealth." With reference to America, he asked: "Is there no autocracy in industry when for 25 years from 1881 to 1906 we averaged 1,470 strikes a year, and, for the five years after our entry into...