Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written examination as a safe and sound criterion of ability. Even the most conscientious assistant will admit that the phenomenon of decreasing returns applies to correcting test papers. The section man is mentally alert to judge the first paper with the best of his critical ability; by the twentieth his senses are dulled and there is little correlation with any of the other papers he has marked. The tendency to judge carefully each succeeding bluebook decreases...
...effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect on the U. S. public as Chicago's gang-battles; they turned harmless laundrymen into homicidal maniacs from sheer contagion...
...feeling that the latter was a greater art. Since then he has rapidly risen to fame, although the number of his productions is comparatively small. Beginning in 1924, he has produced four pictures, the first of which was "Strike." This was followed, in 1925, by "Potemkin," produced on the twentieth anniversary of the unsuccessful Russian revolution of 1905. "Ten Days That Shook the World," released in 1927, commemorated the successful revolt of 1917. His latest picture is "Old and New," a production dealing with the agricultural problems of Russia, and contrasting the new and the outworn methods of agriculture...
When birth control is viewed from the perspective of Humanity in general the matter assumes a different tinge. The Industrial Revolution and its later ramifications extending well into the Twentieth Century have introduced for all practical purposes a new code of morals Separated from the agricultural system where a literal interpretation of Christian tradition could well have been enforced, Youth is bound either to remain celibate under the pressure of the Factory Age or to draw up its own moral code. It prefers the latter, but is hampered by superstition and Victorian prejudice. The paradox of the educated classes with...
Down Chicago's unsavory South Halsted Street one afternoon last week went citizens of high and low degree: clumpy immigrant folk, soiled and happy children, dowagers in their motors. They were all going to Hull-House to celebrate what Founder Jane Addams called the institution's "twice twentieth anniversary" (actually the 41st) and also to signalize Founder Addams' 70th year...