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...that of Britain or the U.S., but lower than that of most Asiatic countries. By nature, the Japanese are very active breeders, and compared with the number of chances given annually for conception, their actual conception rate is probably low. I believe that if the Japanese dropped the hot bath habit their birth rate would be higher still...
...Francisco conference. The apartment, atop the Fairmont Hotel, had been lent to Mr. Stettinius by wealthy Mrs. James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
...group of healthy young men kept in a steam cabinet at 110° Fahrenheit for half an hour. After 18 days, their sperm counts fell well below the minimum for fertility, and they remained sterile for 67 days. Dr. Pincher, following up this study, investigated hospital and domestic bath temperatures which range from 105 to 110°. Putting two & two together, he suggested that the modern hot bath habit may be largely responsible for the declining birth rate in "civilized" countries...
...things" (see above). He gets no salary as a board member, so will have to look for a job. Custodian Nagel boasts a diploma, acquired in 1937, from a Chicago school of massage and physiotherapy. In his spare time he has worked as a masseur in a Turkish bath on Gravois Avenue...
...grand old lobster of the cartoon, angry, hurt and bewildered to find his age and his military experience in disesteem. The crowning blow comes when sharp young men of the new Army jump the gun in training maneuvers and capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath, hours before the sharo battle was supposed to begin. Reluctant and heartsick, he begins at last to understand the one thing the movie tries to teach Blimp, or to show him inadequate in: the idea that the code that has ruled his life is a suicidal anachronism in a world...