Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people are so pathetically ignorant as your well-informed man. The radio has bred this form of mental contagion to an alarming extent in the rural districts. Tom, Tom, the farmer's son, instead, of leading books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind...
...This rural couple had a daughter who went wrong with a suave youth from the city. At the time of this fall from virtue there had been no fall of rain for many weeks. The climax came when the old couple learned of their daughter's dereliction. At about the same moment there came the patter of raindrops on the roof. The dusty years through which rain for the crops had come to be their cardinal concern had their effect. They cheered for the rain and forgot the family honor...
...Defects of the teeth are the most frequent and most numerous of all the health defects of childhood. In the great majority of the schools, both rural and urban, of this proud and prosperous nation, from 50 to 98% of the children have defective teeth?health defects which are actually or potentially dangerous and detrimental to health, normal development, and to sound education. The correction of the dental defects of the youth of America is the largest problem in the entire range of correction of remediable physical health handicaps...
Production rate in the basic industries during July was 2% over June and 20% over July, 1924, and there is little doubt that August has maintained this favorable showing. While crop production generally has fallen off, agricultural prices are up considerably, and rural prosperity in most parts of the country seems assured. Freight traffic in the railroads is both heavy and profitable. Lastly, retail sales have held up unusually well over the summer...
School children in rural districts are given summer vacations on the theory that they will help their fathers make hay. In the fields of education, however, those who are in authority disapprove more and more that expensive school machinery should lie idle for many summer weeks, particularly in view of the number of children whose fathers do not make hay, and of the congestion that exists when all children, country-goers and city-dwellers alike, descend upon the schools in a body every September...