Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is Dr. Farnell's theory. Of 38 sleeping sickness cases he has treated, only two have died. Seven have recovered completely; four are approaching recovery; the rest seem to be improving. This is an excellent record for cures of a high-death-rate disease. The death rate is 21% generally, 50% in epidemics, according to tabulations of Dr. Herbert H. Waite of the University of Nebraska...
...ignoramuses to make fun of eugenics. Unfortunately their witty observations do not change the situation. Feeblemindedness, epilepsy, certain types of insanity and numerous physical abnormalities are hereditary. Every country is afflicted with more than a sufficient percentage of these undesirables. An increasing proportion means racial deterioration. And the birth rate of those of low mentality everywhere is greater than the birth rate of those of high mentality...
These arguments, brief as they are, ought, it seems to me, to show that conscious regulation of the birth rate is a highly ethical proposal. I shall say no more. If civilization advances, it will come. The forces on the other side are the forces of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. They are the same forces that caused the poor savage of the Polynesian wilds to die of fright because he ate the king's food unwittingly. Are we to be ruled forever by tabu
...happily back to a philological study of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, or awards a Ph. D. for a thesis about the influence of Latin Comedy on the plays of Ben Jonson. I vastly prefer Iowa, where you can get at least an A. M. for a first rate job of stage production. I think it is a good deal more important today to develop a Ben Jonson of our own than to pore endlessly over the works of one dead three hundred years. Certainly Broadway this past winter has borne heartening testimony to the fact that many American...
...best information procurable was this: 'Ford's output this year is running about one-third of what it was in 1925. Instead of selling 2,000,000 cars this year, he is operating at the rate of between half a million and three-quarters of a million cars. . . . " 'The Ford plant lately has been working only three days a week and far from full capacity during the three days.' " "One General Motors unit alone, Chevrolet, is declared to have produced and sold this year some 25% more cars than Ford.... The comparison-contrast, rather-for January...