Word: urban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most womanly of British female war work units is the Women's Voluntary Service. Their big test came on the morning of Aug. 31, when the Ministry of Health flashed WVS's chief, the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, to get the children and invalids out of urban danger spots...
...portable toilet to be attached to the rear ends of urban dogs...
...sources were: 1) several months' firsthand and frequently queasy study of Manhattan hospitals, 2) his wife, a handsome ex-nurse, now connected with the social service department of a large Manhattan hospital. The novel owes its life to an effective transfusion of Fearing's talents in urban portraiture...
...Clarence Alonzo Mills of the University of Cincinnati believes that sun spots cause economic depressions. He also believes that the biggest cause of disease in the U. S. is not poverty, urban life, or plain ignorance, but "cold polar waves traveling down the central trough of the continent." Last week in a book-full of statistics, weather maps and medical long shots, Dr. Mills published his latest ideas on the ill winds of North America...
...Britain 5%; France 2.7%. Exulted Chief of the Central Statistical Administration of the National Economy Sautin: "A continuous growth of population is a law of socialism." Non-socialists guessed that sex laxness, the anti-abortion law, influx of peasants "running after their bread" and seeking work accounted for the urban gains which were the greatest...