Word: contents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this latest novel of J. B. Priestley. Characters and plot are both unexciting and vaguely familiar, but their simplicity is followed out with such a happy fertility of notions that one spends hour upon hour completely pleased. There is much reminiscent of Dombeys and Forsytes, but this book is content with a more humble standard of artistic verity, and if for that reason the thousands are less appreciative, the tens of thousands will be the more delighted...
...Dawson's Yarrow circle spread to the British court. King Edward VII had digestive troubles-aftermath of typhoid fever and of his continual gustatory excess. Dr. Dawson, as consultant physician, kept the royal paunch content. He became personal physician (1907) to George V, who then was the Prince of Wales. Upon George's coronation (1910) Dr. Dawson continued with greater prestige as his personal physician. The royal family frequently had great difficulty disciplining their heir, whom they familiarly still call David but whom subjects-apparent call Edward. At such times the King would call on Dr. Dawson...
...content with a rapid succession of single biographical stunts, Author Ludwig here manages three somersaults in one leap, and lands, rather blown, upon his feet. Into one volume he has squeezed the life and works of Michael Angelo, Rembrandt and Beethoven, enough to occupy an author 20 years. The temerity of the performance may be pardoned, however, for the deftness of its execution. It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks. Except for the overripe interpretive verbiage, the volume can be read...
...Siberian frontiers called Taiga. The theme is the conflict between the native's devotion to his tribal law, which stipulates that possession is a sacred right of the possessor, and the Soviet dicta that possession is the right of the neediest. Less stylized and re- lieved of its propaganda content, the feud between Kima and a rich local fur trader might have been a great story. In its present form it is interesting principally because it was made in the Taiga. Good shots: slow thinking Kima consulting with the Soviet officials; his fight in the snow with the treacherous trader...
...steadily rolling up tonnage, while Chilean nitrate has remained almost stationary. Thus, in the "Fertilizer Year" (which begins June 1) of 1927-1928, synthetic production of pure nitrogen was 1,267,000 metric tons, Chilean 390,300. Chemically, Chilean nitrate is superior to synthetic because of its high iodine content. Other distinctions between the two are of little commercial import. Hence competition is largely a matter of price, which in turn depends on production costs. So far nitrogen fixation plants like that of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corp. at Hopewell, Va., have been able to make nitrate more economically...