Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useless, might well be a positive danger to established industries. The position taken by the President in this instance cannot be regarded favorably, for there can be little doubt as to the motivating force behind the sudden revival of a program long fancied by Mr. Roosevelt. Indeed, the whole conduct of the affair smacks too much of a spoiled child deprived of a cherished plaything. Unquestionably the people have given the President a large, if ill-defined mandate, but this project was certainly anything but an integral part of it. Not once but several times it was shown...
Have you folded? Brace up. You didn't conduct a poll or did you? Let's hear from you when you have TIME again...
...neurologists offered definite recommendations: "1) Our knowledge of human genetics has not the precision nor amplitude which would warrant the sterilization of people who themselves are normal in order to prevent the appearance, in their descendants, of manic-depressive psychosis, dementia praecox, feeblemindedness, epilepsy, criminal conduct or any of the conditions which we have had under consideration...
...director of Hemenway he will be coach of the second Freshman basketball team, conduct the games for compulsory Freshman exercise and lead a calisthenics class from 5 o'clock to 6 each afternoon. The calisthenics class will be much the same as the one conducted last winter primarily for crewmen, with the exercises being done to the accompaniment of music. Tom Bolles, the new crew coach, has urged all his men to attend these classes...
...Sing, Baby, Sing" endeavors to show what happens when a night-club singer is not a gold-digger. Alice Faye is that phenomenon, and her conduct is so amazing that even a movie news-reporter (Michael Whalen) is induced to take off his hat, and eventually to marry her. She really should have married Adolphe. Menjou, but then he was always drinking and reciting Shakespeare. Miss Faye is meant to be a personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those...