Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bother to nominate a Man of the Year this December? Any man who can throw the whole world into a state of nervous tension, change the map of the European Continent, persecute thousands of people, and still come through without actual declared war. should win this coveted title without benefit of competition...
While President Roosevelt and others tried to help the Jews last week (see p. 10), actual help was brought by Miss Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) to the Jew most nearly concerned, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan. Neither he nor anyone else denies that he shot and killed in the German Embassy at Paris, after asking to see the Ambassador, Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath...
...various other verbal flights by Critics Roger Fry, Thomas Craven, et al., Author Herter turns a cold and logical eye. Her shrewdest stroke is in showing up the common legend that the Cubists got their program from a famous sentence of Cezanne. The actual sentence: "You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. . . ." It is not recorded that Cezanne ever in his life referred to the "cube." yet by what Author Herter takes to be a monumental feat of autosuggestion, many writers on art misquoted him to include it, the artist's interest in essential geometry...
...Primary protein reactions," declared Dr. Svedberg, "are . . . elementary acts which must, of necessity, obey the laws of quantum mechanics." The implications of this statement are vastly more important to science than the actual splitting of blood pigment molecules. If the quantization of biological processes can be continued far enough, it will be possible to explain in exact mathematical terms-in terms of atomic energy levels and electronspins-what happens when insulin is secreted in the pancreas, when starch is broken down in the digestive system, when an ovum is penetrated and fertilized by a spermatozoon, many & many a complex biological...
...agriculture is concerned, it must be remembered that it is either plantation agriculture or cattle raising. Not only is the climate too severe to permit Europeans to do actual labor in the field, but there is also the social system in Africa which frowns on anything but native labor...