Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertizers and also labor unions. He picked up several old masters, which he later gave to Kansas City when he gave it a museum. But he found masterpieces were hard to get so he secured for the museum copies of old masterpieces -good copies made by first rate painters...
...annually 750,000 women go through childbirth without medical attention. Most of them live on farms. Their mortality rate is high. Their children also show a high rate of death and malformation, results that could be blocked to a great extent by adequate and convenient hospital facilities...
There live in rural territory 50,000,000 people. Those isolated especially in the mountain regions, suffer considerably from poor light and insufficient heat in their homes, ignorance of proper food preparations, ignorance of the transmission of diseases, absence of sanitation, early marriages with a high death rate for mothers and children, and the lack of doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics and dispensaries. In one North Carolina county 5,000 people, half of the population, were examined for hookworm; 42% were infected. Trachoma, the highly infectious eye disease, was present in 2.3% of 816 children seen...
...German point of view, of the World War. Youth resented the militarism and plans of conquest forced upon it by statesmen and diplomats. Of course it is hard to say whether or not German youth would have reacted against militarism had it proved successful in the war. At any rate it did not succeed and the young men and women of Germany revolted against forced military culture...
...faculty permitting specially recommended candidates for distinction to omit one course in both junior and senior years is a logical step in the harmonization of the tutorial and lecture systems. Last year, members of the class of 1925, who were permitted under the same restrictions to work at the rate of three courses during their senior year, benefited greatly by the privilege. Of the 17 men selected, two got degrees summa cum laude, eight magna cum laude, and six cum laude. Only one failed to gain distinction...