Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make businessmen subject to punishment if they buy goods produced in plants where the Act is violated without the purchaser's knowledge...
...bill ordering the State Conservation Department to "preserve the fish from cruel and wanton consumption." Meanwhile Robert F. Sellar, president of Boston's Animal Rescue League, threatened to send agents to arrest goldfish swallowers if college authorities did not stop it. Said he: "This is not a subject for levity. I hesitate to bring such a matter to court, but we won't sidestep the issue. There have been too many complaints...
...long time jazz, the blowsiest of the arts, has needed to have its hair combed and its socks pulled up. Not until last week, when a scholar from the other side of the musical tracks took time out to tidy up the whole subject, had anyone done much sound thinking or writing about one of America's two native art forms (the other: the animated cartoon...
...Johnson and Miss Marjory Metcalf Taylor, persuaded six men and four women to pedal furiously on a stationary bicycle every day until each was exhausted. The bicycle operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces) of gelatin, the women...
Main breeders of U. S. harlotry (and main subject of Designs in Scarlet) are Dine & Dance joints, liquor, tourist camps, obscenity peddlers. Author Cooper does not, however, neglect organized brothels nor the many ramifications of his subject-camp followers of the WPA, sex degeneracy, and worse. As in his previous crime writings (Here's To Crime, Ten Thousand Public Enemies), he is a powerful and even petrifying publicist. But he is, as ever, a highly confusing sociologist. Formerly Author Cooper denounced Prohibition as a main root of U. S. crime. But U. S. prostitution, which he considers worse than...