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Bringing in each newcomer costs Israel $2,500. But that is only the beginning. Finding lodging and work for them has become a job beyond the state's capabilities. After three years of feverish construction, Israel is able to build homes for only half the immigrants. The rest must be herded into primitive shelters...
Between these major works was the Leonore Overture No. 3. The famous off-stage trumpet calls, as well as the feverish intensity present throughout, cause one to wonder why it is not played more frequently (the last Boston performance was in 1945). This is dramatic music at its very best, and Munch played it for all he's worth, which is saying quite...
...listening to the World Series, as you should be," retorted the doctor hurriedly. He added, politely: "Giants ahead, six to nothing," and hung up. Once more the U.S. celebrated the seven days of the long lunch hour, the surreptitious telephone call, the quick office bet, and-to feverish New Yorkers-of the hunt for the ducat, the pasteboard, the seat at the game. BASEBALL FEVER, the sports pages dutifully reported, GRIPPED THE COUNTRY...
Such plants, said he, would largely eliminate the feverish building and later abandonment of wartime facilities, as well as the frenzied hirings, firings and other headaches of the present mobilization-reconversion cycle. Only a dual-purpose plant offers "the immediate employment of industrial labor ... in its normal location and in a type of military production most closely associated with peacetime production...
Sick plants are like sick children. They get hot and feverish when they don't feel well. Last week the University of California's Professor C. E. Yarwood told how he put leaves of healthy plants in a well-insulated container and measured their temperature after four hours. He found that the respiration of the leaves (their "breathing" of oygen) had raised their temperature at most 2.7° F. above the outside air. Then he put sick leaves, infected with virus or fungus diseases, in the chamber. In four hours they were running temperatures...