American Social Problems: An Introduction to the Study of SocietyMacmillan, 1918 - 381 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 96 - After the execution of Charles I and the establishment of the Commonwealth, a number of royalist families fled to Virginia rather than submit to political conditions at home.
الصفحة 308 - Amendment. 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
الصفحة 308 - States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the Legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
الصفحة 177 - ... Suction tubes and blowers should be used to draw off this vitiated air from the atmosphere. Certain gases and fumes may also be both dangerous and poisonous. In such cases the work should be done in a helmet, or under a hood with a forced draft. In many of the chemical trades the work is of a similar dangerous character. A third source of danger lies in sudden changes of temperature and air pressure. When steel workers, or those employed near hot furnaces, feel the outside contact of the cold...
الصفحة 320 - In Switzerland, for example, the divorce rate is higher in the Protestant than in the Roman Catholic cantons. Some observers claim that the divorce rate is highest among those of no religious profession. The divorce rate is about four times as high among childless couples as among those having children. Of the million divorces granted between 1887 and 1006, 6 ... Other/acts.
الصفحة 316 - The population in 1905 was little more than double that of 1870, while divorces were six times as numerous...
الصفحة 283 - ... Members of this group may live to maturity, but their mentality, actions, and conduct will be those of a young child. The "moron" represents the mental ability of normal children between eight and twelve years of age. This is the most dangerous group because it so nearly approximates the normal. These "morons" mingle with the rest of the world unnoticed by the casual observer.
الصفحة 215 - ... lack of judgment prevents their exercising a wise economy in applying their earnings to the purchase of food, clothing, and other necessaries. Scarcity of funds also necessitates buying in small quantities and only for immediate consumption. Hence the poor are often over-charged. For these reasons, tactful settlement workers are carefully studying the manner in which the poor spend their small incomes and are seeking to advise them as to what constitutes wise economy.