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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body automatically struggles to cool off to normal temperature. During a five-hour bout with fever of 106° F., Dr. Fishberg's patients sweated out as much as five quarts of water, one-half ounce of salt, one-third ounce of lactic acid. Due to such acid content of sweat, athletes often complain of "stinging sweat." Because excess salt is shed through the skin, the body cannot supply normal amounts to the stomach, where in the form of hydrochloric acid it is needed for digestion. Nor can the kidneys filter from the blood an adequate amount of salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pure Fever | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Almost any screen rendering of Frances Hodgson Burnett's famed story about an attachment between a small boy and his mother, which modern psychiatry might regard as dangerous if not traumatic, would automatically have been assured of an enthusiastic response from female cinemaddicts. However, not content to let the first production of Selznick International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Many of these restrictions were embodied in the Dress Code under NRA, and department stores were content to abide by them until last year when the Guild began to operate in the field of low-priced dresses. For some time conscientious retailers had been returning dresses to manufacturers in the $10.75 category, alleging copies in violation of Guild rules. A number of manufacturers of these dresses, hitherto generally committed to copying higher priced dresses for a good proportion of their styles, decided that it was time to originate. They accordingly began to register their dresses with the Guild and were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dress War | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...wisdom the standard of excellence in the arts?" is the paraphrased title of tonight's talk. Mr. Frost believes that there are four fundamental classes of poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DOES WISDOM SIGNIFY?" IS TITLE OF FROST TALK | 3/18/1936 | See Source »

...altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Climax | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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