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...cultivate. Its old lands, "plundered" by reckless exploitation, are losing fertility as their "irreplaceable topsoil" washes down the rivers. Farmlands cannot maintain their present production. The world's population is still increasing rapidly, and modern medicine, by cutting the death rate from infectious diseases, is sure to quicken this increase. The falling food-production curve, cry the Neo-Malthusians, will soon cross the rising population curve. Then-kaput...
...attempting to get in a reserve supply of nurses to stem any danger of a recurrence of the situation. Acquiring nurses who will both quicken the Crimson flow and take blood safely and efficiently is no easy task, however, according to Fialkow...
...Gurley, Huna Rosenfeld and Jack Cogan in the distances. Still, until the Stadium cinders dry out enough to permit continued use, Coach Mikkola won't be able to figure out definitely which runners which start in which events against Brown, Tufts and Rhode Island State on April 19. To quicken conditioning, twice-daily workouts have been scheduled for the vacation week...
...plain country meetinghouses, Quaker farmers and their families still worshiped according to the precepts of their 17th Century English founder George Fox, waiting in "living silence" for the Inner Light to quicken in them direct awareness of God's will. They felt no need of dogmas, ritual, or "hired priests." They studied their Bibles for spiritual inspiration rather than as final, unchangeable authority as to the nature and will...
...words may have quickened the affection of men for F.D.R., but they did not quicken the hopes of his fellow Democrats. From Poughkeepsie, Jim Mead plodded on through the last days of his all but lost campaign. All around him lay the decay of the once-great organization which had kept the Democrats in control for 14 years...