Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posed unveiled! The moment she was married she should have heavily veiled herself, and Court officials desperately maintained that she did, but Chicago Tribune's, Alex Small was among those who saw otherwise, cabled: "Farida wore no veil at all, revealing that she is of the pure Circassian type, more beautiful than has been represented in any of her pictures. Her short, slim, childish figure was clothed in a billowing white satin wedding gown." Worth of Paris charged the Egyptians $3,000 for this dress. Other eyes must have seen her too, for, still breaking tradition, she rode...
...rebuilding, over $30,000,000, the Leviathan was sold to Sheffield and Glasgow metal firms for $732,000, plus an estimated $40,000 for the journey to the scrap yard. At the helm of a big ship for the last time, Captain Binks lamented: "I know ships of her type do not pay these days, with such vessels as the Normandie and the Queen Mary and other new ships. But I do feel sad to realize their day is gone, because my day has gone...
...workers, showing how sick the people of the U. S. actually are. From the health and economic records of 2,660,000 individuals living in every part of the U. S. and every type of community, of every economic level of society and every age group, Surgeon General Parran prepared a preliminary report, which he communicated last week to State and local health officers for their information & guidance. Presuming as he did that the 130,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. went through just what the 2,660,000 did, then...
Love and Happiness is a good-natured book of the benevolent, family-physician, don't-worry-there's-nothing-to-it type, explaining frigidity, homosexuality, adultery, venereal diseases and a variety of semi-clinical matters with a joviality that is sometimes excessive. "Here comes a young lady," says Dr. Hotep, "who is beginning to wonder when she will become 'promiscuous'-when she has had three lovers, or when she has had ten." Other perplexed souls who poured out their problems to Dr. Hotep included two well-brought-up college girls who wondered if it was safe...
There are two statements in President Conant's annual report which are of the greatest importance, and which should be carefully considered by everyone interested in the problems of education. They are, "At the boundary between school and college the risk of over-emphasizing the particular type of ability which leads to high grades in all subjects is ever present," and "The immediate task before us is the intensification of our effort, rather than an extension of our enrollment...