Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these troubles mean that annual picnics with Derek Bok in the Yard, the publication of a pamphlet touting community services, and student volunteers in Cambridge schools are simply not enough. Unless Harvard shows greater respect for the surrounding community by working side by side with its leaders, complicated urban problems affecting both the University and the city will never be resolved...
According to the newly-published pamphlet. Harvard employs 3500 Cambridge and 2800 Boston residents and annually contributes nearly $3 million in voluntary payments and taxes to both cities. The brochure also states that the University adds more than $100 million a year to the economy of Cambridge...
While the newspapers continued to refer euphemistically to V.D. as a "rare blood disease," and the U.S. Post Office banned the pamphlet What Every Girl Should Know because of its explicit references to gonorrhea, physicians became more vocal in supporting sex education and moralistic in abhorring the vices, "bred in the pestilential hot house atmosphere of dark, dirty, ill-ventilated homes, which induce ... abnormal cravings...
Much of the Commission's activities involved social hygiene instruction and literature about the male sexual image. A typical pamphlet offered...
...prostitutes during World War I demonstrates the underlying theme of hostility against women in the crusade against venereal disease. Brandt points out that from the start women were either viewed as weak helpless victims or the very source of temptation and disease. Negative propaganda against women entered almost every pamphlet' and poster condemning the disease. Perhaps the most blatant is a World War II poster portraying venereal disease as a sexy woman arm in arm with Nazi soldiers thus declaring her the worst...