Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest show and heartiest picnic on earth is now Germany's annual get-together of roughly a million Nazis at what is called the "Party Congress" in Nürnberg. Around this city of 416.000 souls last week again sprang up the spreading tent towns in which Nazi boys & girls, youths and maidens, fathers and mothers, bachelors and spinsters, grandfathers and grandmothers sleep on straw couches. This year above their& canvas rose a dramatic "Tent of Light"-150 searchlights placed in a circle in such a way that their four-million-watt shafts of light met above...
...bulls Dr. Miller extracted semen containing 1,000,000,000 spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...
...after a scheme to unload the failing sheet on its employes had been abandoned, Publisher Macfadden regretfully jettisoned the Graphic. Main money-makers for Mr. Macfadden have been the pioneer sex-confession magazine True Story, for which he claims the largest monthly newsstand circulation of any magazine on earth (total: 2,135,006), his detective magazines which feature pictures of real crooks and his "Women's Group" (True Romances, Love and Romance, True Experiences, Movie Mirror, Radio Mirror). So fat did the Macfadden fortune grow that in 1931 its proprietor was able to make the large but some-what...
MOHAMMED-Essad Bey-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Melodramatic biography by a writer who argues that Islam is "still the most vital world religion" and that its aim is now, as in Mohammed's time, the conquest of the earth...
Those who have been following the celebration in Cambridge may have noted that singularly little time has been devoted to the glorification of Harvard. The exercises have consisted in gathering together leading men in all fields of learning from all parts of the earth, in listening to what they have to say, examining with them in small groups and in private consultation the great questions before the human mind, and then of honoring these representative scholars in the public ceremony which takes place tomorrow...