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... population lived in the countryside; and though the proportion varied from region to region, as late as 1940 four-fifths of the population of the planet, according to the French geographer Max Sorre, lived in agricultural villages. As ...
... population lived in the countryside; and though the proportion varied from region to region, as late as 1940 four-fifths of the population of the planet, according to the French geographer Max Sorre, lived in agricultural villages. As ...
Page 324
... population, and, best of all, a swift disposition of the product by ceaseless destruction. This was mass consumption with a vengeance. As a result of war itself, the economic center of gravity shifted to the State, that is, the national ...
... population, and, best of all, a swift disposition of the product by ceaseless destruction. This was mass consumption with a vengeance. As a result of war itself, the economic center of gravity shifted to the State, that is, the national ...
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... population, coupled with the invention of the first cheap, popular contraceptives — mainly the sterilizing douche — slowed down the rate of increase to such an extent in countries like France and England that population experts, as late ...
... population, coupled with the invention of the first cheap, popular contraceptives — mainly the sterilizing douche — slowed down the rate of increase to such an extent in countries like France and England that population experts, as late ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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