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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illicit sexual indulgence," report the Gluecks, "was the chief form of their adolescent and early-adult misbehavior. All but 2% of our women had been sexually irregular prior to their commitment to the reformatory. . . . In fact, a fifth of the girls had their first unconventional sex experience before they were 15, and their average age at such time was but 17 years. Illicit sexuality was practically simultaneous with the onset of other forms of delinquency. . . . Four-fifths of the girls entered upon unconventional sexual practices voluntarily. In the vast majority of cases these erotic adventures were shared with casual acquaintances...
...Foreign Policy Association of the U. S. fortnight ago published a report on Manchukuo prepared by its expert, Ben Dorfman. Declared Expert Dorfman: "It is extremely doubtful that Manchuria today enjoys as great a measure of peace and order as prevailed immediately prior to Sept. 18, 1931 [the night Japanese troops attacked Mukden...
From the war until last year the Memorial Society was a defunct organization which had died from lack of interest on the part of undergraduates, but which prior to its end had performed a real service at Harvard. Its work consisted of placing the memorial plaques on the doors of all the rooms in the halls in the Yard which were over one hundred years old, listing on those plates the occupants of the rooms for the first hundred or more years of their existence. Meetings and dinners went to make the club a pleasant one in which...
TIME is inaccurate, as well as instrumental in aiding malicious belittlers, when it refers to California's Governor as Acting Governor Merriam. Merriam is Governor in the full, complete, and accurate sense of the word. He is no more Acting Governor during this interim prior to his actual election to the gubernatorial chair than President Coolidge was Acting President subsequent to President Harding's death and prior to his actual election in 1924. Since a Lieutenant-Governor's becoming Governor upon the death of his chief is exactly analogous to a Vice President's becoming President...
...ears, heart, lungs and kidneys. Continued Dr. Jones, "All patients with any suspected involvement, including rise in temperature over 100.4° F., are held for final examination by the Tonsil Supervisor. No patients are operated upon following a recent illness and no female patient is operated upon five days prior to or during menstruation...