Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made by Drs. Frances Isobel Seymour and Alfred Koerner of Manhattan : 1) A physician should never consent to use a relative as donor. Too many emotional complications may follow. 2) A donor's blood group should correspond to that of the husband so that legal disproof of the child's paternity is impossible without presentation of the double-signed agreement...
...sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon. They decided it was not enough just to be good at the job; they had to be constantly different also. The one possible formula was: Don't have a formula; the one rule for success: Don't follow it up. Their last five shows explain what they mean. Jumbo was circus set to music, On Your Toes a spoof at ballet, Babes in Arms about kids in a depression world, I'd Rather Be Right a rubdown of F. D. R., I Married An Angel a pure...
...undergo changes. At the southern ends of the dry tongues heat is lost and dry air descends from the upper regions. The northern ends of the wet tongues tend to condense, pass mois ture to the dry tongues. As the tongues exchange heat and moisture and as atmospheric currents follow the rotation of the earth, transverse currents of air are generated. Theoretically these currents cut across the more stable air tongues, dividing each air tongue into three parts or "cells" - a centre cell in which the circulation is counterclockwise, between two cells in which the circulation is clockwise - like three...
...announced the scope and complexity of his project (hinting that it might run to 25 volumes), some 11,000 U. S. readers bought copies. Thereafter sales settled so solidly to 5,000 copies for each installment that it was plain Author Romains had a group of readers determined to follow him to the bitter...
...Buckminster Fuller as an architect it has been said that he proceeds incoherently to logical conclusions. As a writer he follows the same procedure, leaping from-subject to subject faster than the eye can follow, but usually reaching conclusions notable for their mixture of blunt common sense and intuitive romanticism...