Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suppose Mr. & Mrs. Kourim follow Judge Ewing's advice; then they will be breaking the birth control law of Ohio, which states that no person shall sell, exhibit, give information about or use any contraceptive. A Federal law and the various laws of other states are almost as stringent. In New York State, however, there are two birth control clinics which may give advice when essential to a wife's health or to save life...
...Department will be partially offset by cutting down the -Navy Department's allotment by 16 millions. President Coolidge pointed out that the cost of national defense has increased about 100 millions since 1926 but explained that "in these prior years the defense establishments have had the use of surplus left over from the war." The President declared himself satisfied that money for the Army and Navy air services was well spent. Besides Army & Navy flying, the U. S. air program is carried forward by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and the Post Office, Agriculture and Commerce Departments. More...
Constantinople may soon be the Detroit of the Orient. For the Turkish Government has granted to Henry Ford a 25-year concession by which he may erect a Constantinople plant for assembling automobiles, trucks, tractors, planes. Ford must use Turkish coal, Turkish workmen...
...When we really went at it, it proved an extremely simple thing to devise, and the apparatus was soon of up in our Pittsburgh offices. There was nothing in it that hard not already been in use; it was merely a new combination of parts that we already...
...elevating than lectures will be alienating the interests of his followers and even--whisper it softly--of the Vagabond himself. Such a demonstration of the appalling brevity of life has had him hurrying back and forth along the way-stations of his academic route in an attempt to make use of every available opportunity before the Reading Period brings its starvation rations. Today he will stop off at Sever 11 at 11 o'clock to hear Dr. Maynadier discuss Sir Walter Seott: and in the afternoon his scientific curiosity will be appeased in part by a visit to the Jefferson...