Word: et
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wells's novels (Kipps, Mr. Polly, Tono Bungay) are considered the best pieces of genre comedy since Dickens. His scientific romances were immensely entertaining and often clairvoyant in their view of the future. His realistic novels are pretty certain to live. His novels of sex propaganda (Ann Veronica, et al.), in their time, were notable liberating forces. His Science of Life (written with his son G. P. Wells and Julian Huxley) may come to be recognized as an achievement still more remarkable than his world-famous Outline of History...
...cancers that ate at the vitals of the Third Republic none was more conspicuously malignant than the "affaire Stavisky." It took its name from Mystery-Millionaire Alexander Stavisky, who one day in 1934 was found shot to death in a snowbound Alpine hideout (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934 et seq.). Sûretée agents had trailed him there to ask him about the failure of the municipal pawnshop at Bayonne, in which Stavisky held the controlling interest...
...agreed to plug the magazine with copies in every plane. Promoter Pardridge is already talking about moving Air Affairs from his fifth-floor walkup flat & office in Washington, D.C. Next month he will ask his hand-picked board of trustees (Sir William P. Hildred, Laurance S. Rockefeller, Quincy Wright, et al.) for a raise in pay, from the $250 a month he started business on. He expects...
...vagus operation, ulcers heal rapidly, the stomach quiets down and the patient leaves the hospital within twelve days. At Massachusetts General Hospital, Surgeon Francis D. Moore reported that vagotomy is especially effective for young or middle-aged men with a long history of peptic ulcers. Nonetheless, Drs. Dragstedt, Moore, et al., advise the operation only after diet and other treatments have failed. For nervous stomachs and the "tensions and strains of modern life," says Dr. Dragstedt, preventive psychoanalysis may be better than nerve-cutting...
Brazilians yell themselves hoarse over the spectacular quartet from Rigoletto, but they listened coolly while Sayao and French Baritone Martial Singher sang the climaxless Pelléas et Mélisande. Luckily for Bidu, she could do no wrong...