Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant-Commander. Richard Byrd declared in regard to this statement, It is foolish for anyone to say that aviation is not valuable. The value of quicker transportation, to mankind cannot be estimated. It will unlike nations and link rural and urban communities more closely. The position of the airplane today is analogous to that of the automobile 15 years ago. There were people then who maintained that the growth of the automobile industry was a very great evil. We do not consider it so, now, however...
Between Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes, namely in the Canadian province of Ontario, rural Drys waged a battle of ballots last week with urban Wets...
...Jews of Bessarabia (20% of the urban population) read last week with passive indignation of how Senator Rabbi Zirelson, their sole representative in the Rumanian Senate, had felt called upon to resign from the Senate after passionately attacking the anti-Semite policy of the Government. The Senators, urbane, accepted Rabbi Zirelson's resignation and voted 80 to 17 not to print his speech in the Official Gazette...
Although modern inventions have succeeded in uniting rural and urban communities into much closer relations than formerly, they have not quite removed the problem of the isolation of the country boy and girl. A discussion of this eternal problem is to be found in the New Republic, and the result is more superficial than the subject merits. The writer has evidently based his judgements on the rural youth of yesterday, not that of today, or even more to the point, of tomorrow. His analysis amounts to nothing more than a compromise. "They seem healthier than the urban youths--probably because...
...farmers have had immense resources but they were handicapped by a complete ignorance of how to use them. And pratical agricultural training as it is being taught in numerous institutions does give the future farmer a better idea of his problems, if it does nothing else. Economically neither the urban nor rural class can exist without the other; intrinsically, neither is the more important. The press, the chief factor in forming opinion, unfortunately emphasizes the sins of the younger and metropolitan generation and gives little regard to the boys and girls from the farm who will make in tomorrow...