Word: ans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Key Largo tells of King McCloud (well played by Muni), who deserts the Spanish Loyalists when he sees their cause "betrayed" and doomed, and his own patrol about to be annihilated. To him this is riot cowardice, but the common sense of disillusionment; to his companions it still seems better...
Director Arnold Lucius Gesell of Yale's famed Clinic of Child Development, writing in Scientific Monthly for December, gave Darwin credit for these experiments, because, in trying to bolster up his theory of man's lowly origin, Darwin gave a tremendous push to the infant science of infant...
"He was equally interested," Dr. Gesell continued, "in the pouting of the European child, of Kafir, Fingo, Malay, Abyssinian, Orang and Chimpanzee. [He found] that discontented primates protrude their lips to an extraordinary degree, Europeans to a lesser degree, but that among young children lip protrusion is characteristic of sulkiness...
Speakers read formal papers in the mornings, in the afternoons the scientists gathered at "round tables" for informal discussion. Some of these sessions grew so heated that they finished in the hall outside the conference room. From the sidelines University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins rather tartly...
Last September, a friend of Dr. Carroll's lay in a St. Louis hospital dying from an infected, pus-dripping kidney. As a last desperate measure, Dr. Carroll wired for a supply of sulfamethylthiazol. He gave his friend a small amount of the bland white crystals, both in capsules...