Word: socially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although dentistry twenty to twenty-five years ago was not ranked very highly as a profession, the tremendous strides that have been made both in research and educational requirements in the last two decades have raised dentistry to its proper scientific and social plane, as one of the most important instruments in the preservation of health, happiness and longevity. The failure of poorly informed or unobservant reporters (if I may be permitted this paradox) to realize these facts, leads them occasionally to still refer to dentists in the press with gross and distorted humor as "tooth carpenters," "tooth yankers...
Momentously the Queen-Empress was indisposed. She was stricken last week, as was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, with a stay-a-bed cold. Therefore two records were set: 1) Mrs. Coolidge, for the first time in her husband's administration, absented herself from a White House social function; and 2) Queen-Empress Mary, for the first time in her consort's reign, did not accompany His Majesty when he rode forth to open Parliament...
...progress of international indoor sport was furthered last week at the serenely social Racquet and Tennis Club, Manhattan, with certain games of racquets. Around the white oblongs of the courts flew small hard balls. Smashing and coaxing them with long slim implements like attenuated tennis racquets U. S. notables and sturdy Britishers played for the International Racquets Trophy. The doubles were divided. Singles went one match to Britain, one to U. S. Into the court strode Clarence C. Pell, U. S. champion, to serve and smash and nurse his shots against J. C. F. Simpson, best of British players...
Headmaster Mather A. Abbott of Lawrenceville: ". . .A greater sense of social responsibility. In fact, I "have an idea that times have changed and that boys are holding up morality...
...sharp perception of Headmaster Stearns pointed a moral when he said that the Modern Schoolboy is "possibly a bit lacking in some of the more rugged qualities" due to "the fault of the modern social conditions in which he finds himself living." And Headmaster Perry seemed to sense a lack of mental ruggedness. "They have far more information but possibly less intellectual curiosity...