Word: original
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Holmes has been collating illegitimacy statistics for years, commenting on their trend. In the November 1936 issue of Population, a British journal, he declared: "There is no escape from the conclusion that larger and larger proportions of our population are coming to be of illegitimate origin." Causes for the increase, according to Professor Holmes: "Too much reliance . . . placed upon the efficacy of the contraceptive methods commonly employed. . . . Depression which has checked marriages and resulted in a certain amount of demoralization. . . . A change of sentiment in, regard to the stigma-attached to illegitimate origin...
...innocent, high-minded people who do not love each other, are forced to marry. This prepares the scene for tragedy in the next generation, is one of the aspects of The Unvanquished that suggest Faulkner knows exactly what he is doing in tracing the New South to its origin...
...noted Finnish composer whose Origin of Fire, played in the U. S. for the first time early in 1938 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is (1 Werner Janssen, 2 Robert Kajanus, 3 Richard Strauss, 4 Jean Sibelius, 5 Eugene Ormandy...
...0nly the words of the Star-Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key. The tune had its origin in 18th-Century England as the gusty club song of London's Anacreontic Society, is believed to have been written by one John Stafford Smith, the society's organist. The original words...
...death of Captain Musick and his crew is an irreparable blow to our company and will be a distinct loss to American aviation. Captain Musick contributed much to American prestige in the air." In President Trippe's opinion, "The Samoan Clipper was destroyed by fire of unknown origin . . . incidental to the discharge of fuel." What caused the fire? A few theorists jumped to the "static spark" conclusion advanced as a cause of the Hindenburg's explosion last year at Lakehurst. But most experts accepted a simpler explanation-that flame or sparks, which sometimes trail out 40 ft. behind...