Word: spans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheat's Life-Span...
...Class of 1930 are not now doing the work they set out to do, has lead the University to put increasing faith in early consultations. "We in the consultant's office feel," Putnam explained, "that school life, and graduate life are all part of a career the span of life, and that what ever may be on a man's mind whether it be about clubs, athletics, managerial or literary efforts, work, summer occupations, and so forth, is a question which we should be able to help him answer...
...shift was long. A rigid socialism did away with even the need of money. Industrial sections, the huge synthetic food-producing plants, were centralized, far removed from residential and play centres. Travel was practically instantaneous: in cars "magnetically levitated through vacuum tunnels." No animal food was eaten. The life span was prolonged to the limits of usefulness-then the worn-out person was "removed." Population was static, births controlled, hygiene enforced. Still men were not happy. They dreamed of an almost forgotten time when their ancestors roamed the earth's surface; their thoughts turned to other possibly habitable planets...
Andrew Carnegie named one of his steel plants after Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in order to increase his chances of getting Pennsy business. In England, Cyrus McCormick exhibited a rusty shipwrecked harvester in competition with spick-&-span machines, won the contest, increased his sales. Frank Munsey never once during 25 years forgot that a certain associate was deaf in his right ear. Dwight Morrow surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold...
Until we teach them and educate them how to live so that their brains will continue to function for the years added to the bodies' life, there is little use in increasing the life span."-Dr. Mayo...