Word: womens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris last week, 400 U. S. veterans and 100 U. S. women registered at American Legion Headquarters for service in the Legion's volunteer ambulance corps. Soon to reach the Western Front, the corps consists of three ambulances, a portable garage, 20 stretchers, twelve drivers. Chief organizer: burly Dr. James V. Sparks of Indianapolis, veteran of the Lafayette Escadrille...
...Sleep Starvation Tries Looks!" cried the fashion column of London's Daily Telegraph last week, bravely offering health & beauty advice to a host of war-worried feminine readers. "Even the women who are accustomed to fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillows may be suffering from a minor form of insomnia, and the real victims of insomnia may be having a worse time than usual." To save British complexions from wrinkles etched by air-raid fears, the Telegraph offered with a straight face the following pseudo-scientific "receipts for easy sleep...
...incomes, diversions, problems, hopes. But Dr. MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status was not enough; he had to know their future problems. To find out what they would need to know after college, he went to the horse's mouth, asked college men and women who were out in the workaday world. To 1,600 Minnesota alumni and alumnae he sent a 52-page, illustrated questionnaire entitled "Building the University of Tomorrow." It asked them what kind of jobs they had, how much they made, what they thought of their bosses, whether they were happily...
...Married men and women often rearranged their furniture, wanted information on how to make their houses comfortable and attractive...
...most wanted: 1) a happy married life, 2) financial success, 3) security for old age, 4) a comfortable standard of living, 5) making a good home. Women: 1) a happy married life, 2) a comfortable standard of living, 3) making a good home, 4) children they could be proud of, 5) travel and adventure...