Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is no unsupported claim. Shortly after World War I, Wisconsin began offering frank sex instruction to most of its high-school students. As a result, the venereal disease rate among its drafted [white] men in World War II was the lowest in the nation: 6.3 per 1,000 as against 170 per 1,000 in some other states...
...Argentina, President Juan Domingo Perón's truce with the Communists seemed to be about over. Police raided the fellow-traveling Union of Argentine Women, hauled 92 off to jail. Thirty-one Greek sailors were deported for spreading the party line among Buenos Aires' Greek colony...
...care, and founded institutes in which 25,000 nurses learned better techniques of caring for women in childbirth; in 1932 a school was established for training nurse-midwives to replace ignorant midwives. The association is proud of the part it played in lowering the maternal death rate from 9.2 per 1,000 in 1918 to 3.7 (including diseases of pregnancy...
...three states (Florida, California and Louisiana), land prices had begun to sag. Land values almost everywhere else were still rising, but the rate was down from 1947. Income-wise, farm land was still cheaper than at the peak of the World War I boom, as the cash yield per acre is now 59% higher...
Almost to a man, students have decried the breakneck pace at which this course plummets through its thousand-year time span. Unlike mathematics and physics, literature cannot be drilled into the mind by the numbers, so many lines per poet, so many poets per week, and so many literary periods per month. Since the reading covers almost everyone who has written a book in England since 800 A.D., and since the grades depend greatly on an ability to identify spot passages and supply a few facts about the authors, most men will never remember anything more than a few trite...