Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese medical facilities are fantastically primitive. Some hospital patients are required to bring their own beds, bedding, food and cooks. In rural areas, the best available medical treatment is furnished by traveling outdoor clinics, which announce their coming, as princes and officials used to do, with a vanguard of nurses, waving banners and ringing bells...
First things came first: he dictated letters. Then he was ready for the callers. That morning they were: a committee from a dental association, the president of a college, the representatives of a radio station, a delegation from an Ohio rural electrification cooperative and a newspaper man to talk about foreign policy. At noon, a luncheon. At 2 p.m., a meeting of the Senate Republican policy committee. At 4 p.m., he was available again to visitors. By now he looked a little austere. But his looks belied him. "Bob is not austere," his wife once explained. "He's just...
These bills do not nationalize urban or rural land outright. But they finally and firmly assert prior Government interest in all land and its uses, and subordinate all private interest to the Government. Silkin's bill revolutionizes the whole basis of tenure and use of British land. Private individuals may continue to own property and use it for profit (unless and until the national or local Government chooses to take it from them, at a price set by the Government). But from the day when Silkin's bill takes effect, private owners may not alter its present...
Priest at Work. Though St. Procopius Abbey is in rural country outside the city, the new Abbot will not be wholly removed from the Studs Lonigan district in which he grew up and has lived all his life. Under his supervision will be the priests of several Chicago parishes like his old one of St. Michael's, as well as priests scattered over several states. He will have charge also of Benedictine missions in China and Czechoslovakia...
...mythical person, the average New York State teacher, makes more money than his mythical counterpart in any other state. It was New York City's relatively high-paid teachers who shot the average up: their average salary is $4,100. Such statistics are little consolation to teachers in rural New York districts, some of whom make as low as $1,200 a year...