Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upholding the verdict in the "Salem birth control case," the Massachusetts Supreme Court yesterday threw an effective obstacle in the path of social progress. Basing its brief on a fact of dubious relevancy--"that the moral and social wrongs arising from the prevention of conception appeared . . . threatening in 1879"--the Court showed a deliberate unwillingness to interpret the law in the light of modern needs. The decision was a great deal more concerned with the "sexual immorality" it hoped to prevent, than with the appalling human misery it was perpetuating. Until knowledge long in possession of the rich is made...
...natural distrust of confabs, which he regarded as a waste of time. Emerson's observation about a better mousetrap was particularly applicable to Professor Kohler, for although he forced himself on nobody, his reputation for sagacity and good judgment caused chemists the world over to beat a path to the door of his office for advice on technical matters, academic appointments, or personal affairs...
...prosperity measure. Now, in immediate prospect is an increase to a flat nation-wide minimum of 40 cents an hour together with a 40 hour per week maximum. These measures have arisen out of a native confidence in under-consumption theories of depression. Two administrations have assumed that the path of roses to prosperity lies in boosting wage incomes so that laborers buy more...
...Once let it [democracy] deviate from the narrow path too far, either to the Left or to the Right, and democracy degenerates," continued Statesman Eden. "A united effort for the spiritual and material rearmament of the nation is the need of the hour...
There was a knock on the door. The Vagabond sloshed his safety razor in the bowl, took a sideways squint at the inch-wide path through his frothy whiskers and traipsed down the hall. It was Dick and Phil, two friends from the Yard...