Word: tenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First there is the Negro, ten and a half million in number, about a tenth of the whole population. They have not, they cannot attain the Anglo-Saxon level. Both biology and anthropology prove it ... The records, authoritative and unemotionally scientific, show the Negro to be specially susceptible to tuberculosis and alarmingly vitiated by veneral infections . . . There could never be intermarriage between the whites and blacks without God's curse upon our civilization...
...bacteria are excreted from one human body each day. Yet these 30 trillions weigh, on the average, only two ounces. The biggest known microbe is the bacillus bütschlii (found in the cockroach), which may be 50 microns (one 500th of an inch) in length and about one-tenth as wide. Among the smallest is the bacillus influenzae (0.8x0.3 microns), although the filterable viruses are believed to consist of ultramicroscopic organisms very much smaller. The most active bacteria move about .0012 of an inch a second. In proportion to size, this would mean a speed of more than...
...bogy of professionalism in intercollegiate athletics has been raised once more, this time by John J. Tigret, United States Commissioner of Education, in an address to the Tenth Recreation Congress at Springfield, Illinois Mr. Tigret charges that the "evil of professionalization of colleges" is reaching to the schools, and that the alumni associations are largely responsible for the tainted condition of undergraduate sport. He goes on to declare that he is unable to point to a single college which is not subsidizing or paying its athletes, and in which the president is not winking at such payment...
...average New Yorker is a European and the average European has a tough stomach. It was perhaps on this account that New Yorkers were able to assimilate " combined " newspapers for ten days during a pressmen's strike (TiMB, Oct. 1). By the tenth day the strike had dissipated its force and New York newspapers resumed their separate identities...
...House of the Laity nothing changed. In the interest of women much was proposed, but nothing granted. Only women who will promise to " obey " can be church-married. The Tenth Commandment also remains intact. It still reads: "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his servant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his." Miss Maude Royden, persistent feminist agitator, endeavored to have "wife " eliminated. " Women dislike to be categoried with...