Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Covering modeling, theatre, and nightclub jobs as possibilities for girls who are beautiful; publishing, advertising and department-store jobs for girls who are brainy; and social work, education, office work and odds & ends for others, Author Leaf finds these fields all overcrowded. Models get $5 or $10 for a sitting, but of 10,000 girls in New York who think they are models, only 200 qualify as professionals. A few make from $5,000 to $10,000 a year, but probably only 15 average $150 a week, and clothes, beauty treatments and agents' fees take a lot of that...
...girl trying to break into the publishing business, says Author Leaf, runs into so many brothers, sons, cousins and in-laws of the boss that she soon decides that publishing is as inbred as the Jukes family. As for newspaper work, he calculates that some 2,000 girls in New York hope to land one of the 20-odd jobs now held by women reporters on the eight big dailies. Education and social work look like the best bets to him. Department-store selling he puts at the bottom of the list, because he has seen more usually calm women...
Until he began gathering material for this biography, Author West shared the conventional view of his subject: Darwinism he took for granted; Darwin the man he regarded with "faint distaste" as a too typical Victorian. When he became better acquainted with his material, he changed his mind. He became fond of Darwin the man, and he made a shocking discovery about Darwinism. He discovered that Fascists, Communists and rugged individualists all claim direct descent from Darwin's theory of the Survival of the Fittest. What these monstrous descendants ignore, decided Author West, is that Darwin got his Survival theory...
With this shrewd focus, sharpened by careful writing, Author West sets out to bring Darwin into modern perspective, succeeds in making this newest biography of Darwin the freshest yet written. But with all his shrewdness Author West cannot quite clear up the great Darwin paradox: the contrast between his revolutionary work and the conventional Victorian who produced...
...Carnegie Institution's Expedition for Study of the Earth's Magnetic Behavior. A mixture of guidebook, adventure story, anthropological study, social & political commentary, covering a 2,000-mile trip through the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil, Journey to Manaos tells next to nothing about terrestrial magnetism. Author Hanson dutifully did the job he went to do, but he records more magnetic attractions above ground than underneath...