Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leslie L. Lumsden, national authority on rural sanitation and Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin, assistant surgeon-general of the United States Public Health Service, are coming from Washington to lecture during the next fortnight in Dr. M. J. Posenau's course on "Public Health Administration" at the new Harvard School of Public Health. Their lectures will be open to the general public as well as to students of the School...
Instead of electing a greatest woman of all time, however, the people usually seek the most beautiful woman in America. Recently the papers were filled with pictures of rural belles from Utah, Timbuctoo, and Chicago; then all these lovely damsels convened at Atlantic City, where that epicure of feminine beauty, Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld selected from them Miss America,--now on her way to Hollywood...
...Argentine, Dr. Bunge became a student of political economy, sociology, statistics, and labor. From 1910 to 1918 he was a member of the Argentine Social League, from 1912 to 1916 President of the Labor Clubs of the Republic, from 1918 to 1920 member of the Syndicate of Rural Banks, and since 1919 President of the Argentine Social-Economic League. He is associated with Ernesto Tornquist and Co., a leading banking firm of Buenos Aires...
...With the coming into existence of this new class, many changes were necessary in the laws and institutions which had formerly been sufficient for a rural population. Municipal administration, town courts and corporations came into existence...
...Furthermore, these large feudal estates produced only for themselves. The producer and the consumer were the same person, there being no inter-state commerce. We may call this period one of economic stagnation, which continued until about the eleventh century. Gradually out of this rural civilization there sprang up walled towns which became the religious and administrative centers...