Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...none too fond of water used externally. A great deal of the manual labor is done by the women of the country. Lapps, like most primitive peoples, are fond of smoking and drinking. As for their physical ailments, they are susceptible to such diseases as tuberculosis, and social diseases are extremely prevalent among them...
...results of the expedition, while they will be some time in preparation, are expected to be an important factor in determining how radical hybrids compare with their respective parent stocks in fertility and vitality, in mental characteristics, and in respect to social efficiency and economic and political stability...
Asked about his audiences, Rodemich said that it was a curious fact that he could recognize in the theatre each week a number of habitues. "They're people from all social classes," he remarked, "but of an entirely different type from that which attends vaudeville performances. A big vaudeville head-liner is often unsuccessful in a moving-picture house. In fact, I think the movie-goer is a better type, a more cultural person, than the average vaudeville...
...believe that New England, like the other sections of our country, has had in the past a well-defined provincial culture, and has made a distinctive contribution to American life, character and civilization. A quarterly journal, including within its scope the literary, social and economic history of New England, and the westward expansion of New England people, should first, meet a recognized need of scholars of history and literature, and, second, the rising generation of scholars in a field that needs cultivation. In the study of American literature many large problems and topics must wait for final treatment until...
...parents who keep their son out of college a year after he is prepared are often moved by a belief that he would otherwise be at a social and athletic disadvantage, and this is so far true that if such things were the main object of college the motive would be serious. A student younger than his classmates is usually somewhat less prominent in these matters; but by no means always. Some years ago a father sought advice about sending his son, to Harvard College at 17. He was advised to do so, but warned of the social disadvantage. Wisely...