Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps your grandfather went West with the covered wagons-or round the Horn to California in '49. Perhaps he didn't. At any rate, if you're in New York in August, here's something you shouldn't miss...
...mistake us. We are not saying that the paragraphs and jottings are second-rate. They are excellent things of their sort, and make very enjoyable occasional reading. Our quarrel is not with them but with their sort. We can find them, or things very much like them, in any issue of the Evening Post, and chuckle at their wit and ponder over their philosophy. But in a volume we somehow look for a more sustained effort, more unity, and greater depth. It is not that we like the paragraphs less, but that they shine poorly in contrast with what their...
...perhaps excessively so, and therefore St. Paul's words appeal to us. They have in fact a peculiarly modern ring, for the first impression they produce is that of measuring the value of acts by the results attained rather than by the moral purpose involved. We are prone to rate among the virtuous those who have conferred benefits upon mankind regardless of the motives that actuated them; and the effect is good, insofar as it encourages others to do the like. But this is not the attitude expressed by St. Paul in the text. He is treating only of works...
...death rate is slightly higher than that for 1921 (11.6 per thousand), which was the lowest rate on record, but it does not seriously interrupt the steady downward trend of the deathrate. If as many persons had died in 1922 as would have under the conditions of 1880, there would have been 800,000 more deaths last year than there actually were...
...birthrate drops, especially in the professional classes of native American stock. But, thanks to the prolific immigrant, the excess of births over deaths hold its own. The highest rate for 1922 was 30.2?in North Carolina; the lowest was 18? in the State of Washington...