Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great social and religious forces now interacting and savagely opposed were first generated in the 16th century when Spain overthrew the pagan empire in Mexico, imported the Catholic Church, and set up in Mexico City an inquisition to extirpate such beliefs as that in Mexitl...
...book has ever before been printed in the U. S., nor made available, because the Government has forbidden the importation from England of the only other book of its kind in English, Marie Carmichael Slopes's Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice. In German Dr. Alfred Grotjahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin, has published two monumental books on the subject, but it is almost impossible to find copies of them...
...influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption of an English wire-cutting party near German trenches on a murky night...
...reached were the most interesting feature of the address. "There is no difference in the cheating behavior of children of different sex, nor does difference in age between the years of nine and 14 affect their deceitful conduct. Intelligence, however, is a significant factor, as is the economic and social status of the children's homes...
...little old-fashioned evangelism is, strangely enough, valuable if not essential. And if this evangelism can be made free of mysticism and endowed with the sincerity of a commanding personality, it supplies, despite its glamor of notoriety, an anchor-stone to many drifters on the modern sea of social and economic uncertainty...