Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week to Poland), foreign military men were apt to ask embarrassing questions about the size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar Nicholas I and Boer General Christian De Wet all failed to force Britain to do, Adolf Hitler may yet accomplish...
...Marguerite Wilker Johnson, a supervisor of the University's laboratory elementary school, tried out the relative effectiveness of cajolery, flattery, commands, threats and scolding on 40 matched pairs of children aged 2½ to 8½. One youngster of a pair received specific instructions, the other general ones; one simple instructions, the other verbose; etc. All told, some 26 kinds of persuasion were tried. Highlights of Dr. Johnson's report...
Other criteria of emotion in Dr. Hall's rats were refusal to eat, refusal to move about. They were placed in the enclosure for two minutes a day, day after day. In general the emotional rats manifested uneasiness longest, started eating latest. The psychologist bred emotional males to emotional females, unemotional males to unemotional females. He thus obtained two second generations, one of which was seven times more emotional than the other. Conclusion: "Differences in emotionality appear to be genetically determined...
...bland orange-yellow of sodium-vapor lamps now lights hundreds of miles of U. S. highway. Until recently it has been a ticklish and costly job to get the sodium into the highly evacuated lamps without contamination. Last week General Electric Co.'s laboratories at Schenectady announced a clever new way of filling the bulbs. The sodium is packaged in tiny, frail glass capsules, a capsule placed inside each lamp, the lamp pumped out and sealed. Then short radio waves are turned on the capsule. It heats up, explodes. The sodium is thus freed inside the lamp...
Last Sunday afternoon six finalists, selected by a jury headed by the Metropolitan's General Manager Edward Johnson from among the 54 voices aired (altogether 659 had been auditioned) in the 1938-39 competition, gathered in a studio in Manhattan's Radio City to hear which two of them had won the two $1,000 first prizes and contracts with the Metropolitan. Of the six, none sported Italian names, only one had studied in Europe. The two men were big, straight fellows-baritones. The four women-sopranos-were young, slim, uncommonly pretty, utterly un-divalike. The winners: Lyric...