Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience. When Schnabel decides on a program, his invariable comment is: "Who wants to come will come." It was to be expected that earnest young music students would be on hand for his series, meticulously following each note of the score. Surprise was that ordinary concertgoers would catch the fever, that by last week when the cycle approached its halfway mark the Schnabel recitals had become a popular rage. Seldom have audiences been more attentive. There are pianists who play with more flash than Schnabel, who hammer out louder crescendos, make their pianissimos more consistently haunting. But few have been...
Just what had occurred in the intervening 60 days to make Mr. Eccles change his tune was not explained. But plausible reasons included a sizeable expansion in brokers' loans; a strong resurgence of inflation fever; and, since the present Reserve Board retires in a body this week, an unwillingness to leave a serious fire hazard to a new Board, the majority of whose members may need time to master their fire-fighting equipment...
...sanitarians Dr. Alfred Potter, Brooklyn syphilologist, estimated 10,000,000 U. S. cases of syphilis, active and arrested. Cried he: "In the area of the U. S. in which syphilis has been reportable since 1920 there have been reported 35,000 more cases of syphilis than of scarlet fever, 79,000 more cases than all forms of tuberculosis, 500,000 more cases than of diphtheria and five times as many cases as typhoid fever...
...work along these lines. The value of lectures however, has not gone unrecognized. A carefully integrated system of courses has been constructed to assist the student in covering his field. And in spite of the myth to the contrary, lectures are attend by the Cambridge undergraduate with a fever only to be excelled by the probation student at Harvard. But no course credits are awarded and so the attention of the student is not diverted from the Tripos examination...
...stress of badly disarranged conditions within and effective financial sanctions without, has-managed to live on its nerves for such a long time, is even more remarkable. However astonishing, the course of events is, nevertheless, explicable, first by political necessity and later by that phenomenon known as war fever. But now that the little fat that Italy had is gone, and now that there can be no buoying military success, the largely unseen currents of public opinion may soon well up, suddenly and dramatically, to sweep Mussolini from power. Any other conclusion would seem far fetched and miraculous...