Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased to approve. . . ." Like a blunderbuss fired from Australia House came last week this blunt phrase: "The King, on the recommendation of Scullin, has appointed. . . ." Sir Isaac Isaacs. Even before Prime Minister James Henry Scullin of Australia set out for London to attend the Imperial Conference (TiME, Oct. 13, et seq.), he promised Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, that the King-Emperor would appoint him Governor General of Australia. That the King-Emperor would perform what had been promised by one subject to another in advance; that Mr. Scullin should have proved strong enough to make His Majesty do it-such...
...students,* but on a generous estimate, perhaps 4,000. [A student may get degree credit by taking courses in] 'poultry-raising,' 'wrestling, judo and self-defense.' Is this not an appalling situation?" Harvard may some day change its motto from "Veritas" to "Veritas et Ars Venditoria" (Truth and the Art of Selling). "The Harvard Business School raises neither ethical nor social questions ... it does not even take a broad view of business as business . . . the main emphasis of the school ... is concentrated on 'getting on.' ... University of Chicago applicants are assured that they...
...theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos or trios. The characters do not express themselves in formal, stilted song. More in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande, they talk back and forth naturally in the intimate, emotionalized musical speech for which Mary Garden has a particular genius...
...opportunity they get. Last month when he declaimed on the Catholicism of the Protestant Episcopal church they attacked him (TIME, Nov. 17). And they really caused last Sunday's row. Ever since he was ousted as Judge of Denver's famed Juvenile Court (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929 et ante} Mr. Lindsey has made a fetish of companionate marriage.† He has crusaded for it in magazine articles and lecture halls, acquiring a certain martyrdom which is not without its financial compensation.** Last fortnight he and his friends tried to arrange a debate on the subject with...
...woman" has the genitals of the apparently opposite sex). Enlargement may cause premature puberty. A tumor after puberty makes women hairy, their voices masculine. The normal cortex seems to control cellular growth throughout the body. Hence the experimental use of a blind extract to treat cancer (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. The medulla secretes epinephrine, hormone which affects blood pressure. In some way it influences the skin color and possibly muscular vigor. That is one reason why most physiologists have believed that disease of the medulla was the main cause of Addison's disease. But the Swingle-Pfiffner...