Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More and better incubators were just what the doctors ordered, and by the late 1930s a steadily increasing number of premature babies was surviving the dangerous weeks after birth. But by 1942, medical statisticians were already calculating the cost. Of premature babies who weighed 4 Ibs. or less at birth, one out of every eight reared in hospital incubators was going blind. Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the blood vessels of the retina would fan out in wild profusion. Fibrous tissue growing behind the lens would cloud the eyes and ruin the retina. Doctors were baffled. They could...
...twice the ordinary horsepower. One car flipped over at 240 m.p.h.; the driver, protected by safety belts and rollover bars, got out with a broken leg. But the others, whistling eerily over the 14-mile course, shattered records in three International classes, some that had stood since the late 1930s, when four of Nazi Germany's biggest automakers spent huge sums on a series of super-racers to help glorify Hitler. The new record-holders...
...draped in silk, Primo Camera took Hollywood Starlet Audrey Dalton by the hand and rolled his eyes for a soulful photograph. Camera, 44, the Italian giant (6 ft. 6½ in., 280 Ibs.) who was promoted all the way up to the world's heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just picked up their U.S. citizenship papers in Los Angeles...
...into Jericho; in return, Rahab was protected by the Israelites when the walls came tumbling down. The screen of "merchants" who preceded the Mongol hordes across Asia in the 13th century were the occupational ancestors of the Nazi "businessmen" and "tourists" who infested Europe and Latin America in the 1930s. In China, it is said, military intelligence became such a respected art that rival commanders sometimes parleyed, each with his spies in attendance, and worked out how a pending battle would come out if it were fought. When this was decided, the theoretical winner paid tribute to the theoretical loser...
...letter to the Manchester Guardian Weekly, Clark wrote: "What happened in the 1930s was that a substantial element among the university population and among authors and literary critics adopted Marxism. And what we are witnessing now is the complete discrediting of Marxism in all its forms-Bolshevik or Menshevik, extreme or moderate, academic or practical. And with this obstacle removed, the group who used to be called 'the intellectuals' quite naturally resume their proper position in the [British] national life as men who can influence, but not dominate, the development of the public taste and the course...