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Page 132
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 180
... population of a conquered city was restricted by the amount of hand labor required . Modern technics has removed such limits : nuclear blasts and chemical poisons have been treated by pro- fessedly humane governments as a justification ...
... population of a conquered city was restricted by the amount of hand labor required . Modern technics has removed such limits : nuclear blasts and chemical poisons have been treated by pro- fessedly humane governments as a justification ...
Page 336
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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