Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis Aldro Walter of Maltbie Chemical Co. at Newark, N. J. last year created a new sulfanilamide product: sulfamethylthiazol. Biologists of Winthrop Chemical Co.'s Albany Laboratories fed the drug to mice infected with Staphylococcus germs, found it far more powerful, far less toxic than sulfapyridine. But even after hundreds of trials, no one dared experiment on human beings...
...rarely is Tabouis caught with a false prediction that she cannot balance with a true one. For she has no fear at all of contradicting herself, even in the same article, frequently prophesies happenings that are mutually exclusive. She has been spectacularly right & wrong simultaneously on everything that has occurred in Europe for a dozen years. On her own staff she wars perpetually with bearded, ancient Georges de la Fouchardiére, L'Oeuvre's political humorist. A witty contemporary once said that Fouchardiére "daily executes on page two the dangerous maniac who operates on page...
...Pearl Buck), best-selling novelist, sounded off on bestsellers: "To read a book because others are reading it is no reason at all. For myself, I should like to see every best-seller list abolished, and the volume of sale of any book kept a secret, even in advertising...
...early 19th Century, Vienna, imperial city of the Habsburgs, was about the size of Dayton, Ohio. For a little city, it had big appetites. In an average year its 200,000 citizens ate 12,967 suckling pigs, drank 382,578 barrels of beer, 473,339 barrels of wine. Even more impressive than the way they ate and drank was the way the Viennese waltzed. Every night in the week, a quarter of the entire population whirled themselves dizzy in Vienna's dance halls...
...storage problems (film is lighter, less bulky); 3) whole symphonies and operas can be played without stopping to flip a record or change a needle. As in cinema recording, music films can be cut and patched, their wrong notes erased, their sour ones replaced. Unlike phonograph discs, they can even be played backwards, which is said to improve some modern compositions...