Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women of New York City, whose population then reached 3,000,000 for the first time in the community's history, gave birth to more than 100,000 children in a single year. That great increment continued year after year, but in recent years the birthrate (36.4 per 1,000 in 1898) dropped steadily until last year, for a total population of 7,400,000, it was down to 13.4. It was down that low, not only because the adult population has grown out of earlier proportion but because, for the first time in 39 years, births numbered less...
Reporting this phenomenon last week, the city registrar of records also noted that the city death rate was 10.5 per 1,000, and commented: "If conditions continue we shall probably reach a point where the two rates will balance." That point, said New York State's Vital Statistician Dr. Joseph Vital De Porte, who simultaneously reported a similar convergence of birth and death rates in his larger province, will mark "a demographic equinox...
More than 2,000 women in Newark, New York City and neighboring communities subscribed to the system of this abortionist whose name echoed London's famed Harley Street where England's most honorable doctors have their offices...
...York last week 50 or so parents of students at two schools gathered to watch a series of nine matches between the schools' wrestling teams. When the matches were over, and Philadelphia's Overbrook School had won, 22-to-5, the teams cheered each other and everyone went home. Because there was only one point of procedure at all out of the ordinary about the whole performance, a stranger could have watched from the gymnasium balcony without being aware that all contestants on both teams were totally blind...
...opponent intends, permit a blind wrestler to break it before it is completed. Broken arms and ribs among blind wrestlers are no more common than among their non-blind confreres. Curious foibles are no less rare. In last week's match, Overbrook's opponent, the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, had to use a substitute against Overbrook's star, Philip Tuso, because Philadelphia's white blind wrestlers do not like to compete with blind wrestlers who are Negroes...