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Gynecologist Kroger (a hard-bitten bachelor of 45) sees physiological evidence to support this idea in the large number of miscarriages, toxemias and other complications of pregnancy and labor which often follow long-standing sterility of psychological origin...
Born the year (1859) in which Darwin's Origin of Species came out, Dewey marked the crest of a tide that had begun to swell with the French Revolution. No man so completely summed up the raw, rationalistic credo of his century-belief in the here & now, in the necessity for perpetual adjustment to change, in the idea that man has no provable end, only "ends that are literally endless...
According to the new scheme, one game would be telecast nationally each Saturday. The games would be distributed widely in respect to their points of origin...
Last week the principle of national origins came under heavy fire from Senate liberals. Up for debate and disposition was an omnibus immigration measure sponsored by Nevada's Pat McCarran. In essence, the bill proposes no real departure in policy. Product of almost three years of study and hearings by the judiciary committees, it is designed to bring thousands of piecemeal immigration statutes and regulations (accumulated since 1798) into one handy, compact code. In the process, it would remove some glaring inequities, e.g., all Asiatic immigrants would be eligible for citizenship, where previously Japanese and certain others were barred...
...Boers are a little different. Fifty-six years ago, in Following the Equator, Mark Twain described the Boer as: "deeply religious, profoundly ignorant, dull, obstinate, bigoted ...proud of his Dutch and Huguenot origin and its religious and military history . . . He has stood stock still in South Africa for two centuries and a half, and would like to stand still till the end of time...