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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kerridge of London University bolstered up this theory by publishing results of her hearing tests on 1,000 English school children. Middle ear deafness, found Dr. Kerridge, "is about four times as common, on the average, under poor social conditions as it is under good social conditions; in the poorest places ... it may be nearly ten times as common as in a good environment, nearly a quarter of the child population being affected. Climate, housing, and the mixing of children seem to have little effect...
...almost did it again, bowing by a 9-6 score to the always powerful, not always so alert Army team. Only 5,000 people turned out to watch what was expected to be a Cadet walkaway, but the Academy eleven booted away countless scoring opportunities in one of its poorest showings in recent years...
Japanese-Manchukuoan troops last week were still trying to drive Soviet-Mongol forces back across the Khalka River. Correspondents who examined prisoners reported that the Russians were employing the poorest sort of cannon-fodder, ignorant conscripts who scarcely knew how to use rifles. The Japanese were, however, having their difficulties with fleets of Soviet tanks and a rejuvenated Air Force. New and better planes from bases in Siberia suddenly appeared and scattered high explosives and what imaginative Japanese officers said were "germ" bombs...
...That it will plow, harrow, drag a seeder, pull a wagon better than any tractor ever made, far better than a horse which is, as Thomas Edison said, "the poorest motor ever built...
...Best-paid careers for men ($2,500 or more after eight years) were dentistry, medicine, law, public office, architecture, insurance, research, forestry, business, :elephone work. Poorest-paid (averaging under $2,000): journalism, the ministry, clerical work. Biggest single group (17%) went into teaching, averaged about $2,000 eight years after graduation. Best-paid occupations for women were nursing and teaching. Big-college graduates were better paid than alumni of small colleges...