Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice of prostitution has been technically licensed by the police for a period .of many years. The women from the 'redlight' district are arraigned before the Magistrates Court once a month and invariably plead guilty. Those charged with being inmates of a house of prostitution pay a fine of $25, those charged with operating a house of prostitution pay $50. The city derives a revenue from this source of approximately $20,000 a year...
...city surgeon states that there is a deplorable amount of venereal disease in the city and that numerous high-school students have contracted disease in the 'redlight' district, usually following a period of drinking in the neighboring taverns. He states, however, that disease contracted from the prostitutes is not nearly so frequent as from the 'pickups' who frequent the night clubs and dance halls where liquor is sold...
...next two years, all-important period of the treaty negotiations with Britain, Egypt's real ruler must be a Regency Council. Fourteen years ago King Fuad wrote three names on a paper, sealed the paper in an envelope, put the envelope in his safe, gave a sealed duplicate to the Government. This envelope must be opened (within ten days of the King's death) in the presence of Parliament and voted on. If Parliament dislikes the King's regents, it must nominate its own. King Fuad dissolved the last Parliament two years ago, only last December reluctantly...
Sept. 1: "Discover that my threatened blindness is an acute 2-diopter presbyopia which has rushed on me in a period of ten days-an accompaniment of the muscular enfeeblement of the grippe, according to [Dr.] George Derby. Specs for me henceforth...
...Minn.), Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Atlantic City. He would have to attend conventions of specialists as varied as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Urological Association, would have to visit state medical association meetings from Alabama to Wyoming. Practically all those meetings occur in the five-week period which began last week...