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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proud was Founder William H. Cameron that the biggest single cause of accidental death, traffic, was being made safer at a rate that indicated a saving of 8,500 lives in 1938 under the 39,500 killed...
...little to do with the introduction of the resolution. It was pointed out in City Hall that the Council's charge that Landis had paid ten cents for each name on the petition was justified, since the Plan E committee had used professional signature gatherers paid at that rate...
...Fewer than one-third of women born since 1910 and only one-eighth of men were without sex experience at marriage, compared to nearly nine-tenths of the women and one-half the men born before 1890. If this trend continues at the same rate virginity at marriage will approach the vanishing point in about 20 years. Virginal couples have slightly higher chances for a happy marriage than others...
...Winston Spencer Churchill, a Cabinet Minister at 34, writer, painter, orator, jack-of-all-talents, is an unfortunate man. Too brilliant a politician to become a first-rate writer, he has been too brilliant a writer, in a country which puts a premium on imposing mediocrity, to become Prime Minister...
Distaste for the literary classics is an inhibition commonly traced to English teachers. Cures are rare. On the contrary, the psychosis is likely to be aggravated by stuffed-shirt critics, lecturers, anthologists, Five Foot Shelves. An accidental cure sometimes occurs when a reader stumbles on to a first-rate modern critic, who illuminates the classics with insight and imagination while advising the reader to follow his own reason, draw his own conclusions. An honest reader, if he believes that Shakespeare is junk, and can say why, does the cause of great literature less harm than the snobbish or timid...