Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past half century since the agitation for birth control (starting in England with Robert Owen, Francis Place and the famous Bradlaugh-Besant trial) became widespread. It is well known that many physicians give information to their private patients. But the lower classes, economically and mentally, have been shut off from such sources. It is these classes, including the majority of immigrants, which have the largest families and contribute the largest share of paupers, defectives and diseased per- sons. Birth control information, if available to them, would improve the quality of the race by cutting off at its source the multiplication...
...Wilson administration or to the reactionary conservatism of part of the opposition. America soon after the war crawled into her shell, drew in her horns after her, and has remained there ever since. All talk of the war has been thrust resolutely out of the window, and the door shut and battened against Europe by the adroit use of the Monroe Doctrine. Although this document was first promulgated only with reference to South America, it has stood the present government authorities in good stead on many occasions during the past two and a half years. No later than last Friday...
...reason for the shut-down was stated to be the abnormal present costs of production, due to excessive salaries paid to " film stars" and directors. According to Marcus Loew, head of Metro Pictures Corporation and of the Loew Theatre Circuit, this step is only a beginning of a general deflation of the cinema business; he added: " The cost of making pictures has got away from...
...declining considerably. According to S. A. Guiberson, Jr., Chairman of the Prorating Committee of the Southern California Oil Producers' Association, California output is now about 834,000 barrels daily. He also characterizes as untrue rumors in the financial centers that huge amounts of new well petroleum were being "shut...
...encouraged the Odessan pianist in his disrespectful treatment of the great masters' music. . . . After a while his mumbled speeches, which could be heard only in the front rows, got on the nerves of some of the listeners, and they resorted to continuous applause to make him shut...