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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before he married her. Even their boy's paternity was unknown to him. He had married her, not only for her transcendent, slender beauty, but because she asked him to. She had turned to him because his mental poise made other men seem as children...
...Pearl goes on to produce evidence of different kinds on the factors which control population, showing: 1) that for some unknown reason, perhaps psychological, fertility decreases as the size of a group increases (for example a group of 50 hens in a pen will lay more eggs per hen than a group of 100 hens) ; 2) that, as if well known, wealth reduces the birth rate; 3) that poverty and hard conditions of life tend to increase reproductive activity. In this connection he produces statistics of the sex activity of some 250 married men at various ages. At all periods...
Perhaps pragmatism is to be the essential philosophy of the western world. Surely materialism itself is not far removed from this science which must swing back to man, which cannot direct itself into the unknown for the pleasure and splendor of the voyage Most successful adventures have had the pawn shop behind them, but with the pawn shop forgotten...
Just as squabbles and hair-pulling are not unknown in the Metropolitan's wings, so the course of events leading up to last week's vote in the Metropolitan board of directors was not without conflict and a tinge of acrimony. Last December Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the board and largest stockholder, bought the city block bounded by 56th and 57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood...
Academic sports, which were all but unknown before the war, are gaining ground, but the participation is still minimal. Something is being done in the way of competitive field and track contests, but it is unlikely that these will ever assume more than a fraction of the importance attached to them in America. The Germans of the better class still regard sport as a means to an end, not as an end in itself. In other words, small stress is laid on competitive contests and record-making...