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...drawings, which are artistic works of science. His interest in ecology-the study of the relation, always complex, between each animal and its environment-makes his book not merely a description of loathly and lovely beastlings from Jamaica and Yucatan but a picture of a darker and grander organism of which they are parts...
...animals in order to learn the control of disease in our own world. His book shows that patient naturalists can still find under leaves and stones a tropical American world as strange and dark as that which in the 19th Century pioneers like Bates and Belt found on a grander scale...
Effect. As statisticians began making "horseback appraisals" of who would pay what, the new bill's grander follies began to take shape. Most startling example was the contrasting cases of U. S. Steel, a leading defense beneficiary, and Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., cigaretmakers, who are likely to get little benefit from a defense boom. Having had three very poor years in 1936, 1938 and 1939, Big Steel will undoubtedly figure its excess profits by return on its capital. By this method, it can earn up to some $112,000,000 over and above its normal tax before paying...
...Hollywood experts can sometimes do to make a trite story into a thoroughly entertaining picture. The experts are Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, Associate Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director Gregory Ratoff. The story is about two Continental con men (Erich von Stroheim & Peter Lorre) who work the better resorts and the grander hotels until their lovely confederate, the fake Countess Vronsky (Zorina), falls in love and marries one of their well-to-do victims (Richard Greene). Then they go to work on Zorina. This sinister frolic is almost as sure to please U. S. cinemaddicts as the work of its three principal...
...much-distilled terms, the fond picture projected by the report is of a vastly more vigorous intra-mural sports program. Its scope is grander, the facilities are more equal to the demands, the coaching is better, the spirit of competition is keener, the participation is larger. The elusive fire-fly of "athletics for all" will for once be captured. There will be a decisive de-emphasis of sports if by emphasis is meant playing to win--for the old grads and the Sunday columnists. There will be new emphasis in the sense of athletics for sport and for physical gain...