Word: graphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...classic human document expressed in lyric prose. But since then (1913) Author Lawrence has played less the artist and more the psychiatrist, his favorite study still the positive and negative reactions of sex attraction and repulsion. At their best the short stories of the present collection are a neurological graph done into Lawrence's powerful prose, and at their predominant worst (witness the title story) they are queer extravaganzas of symbology...
...Contracting Parties named in the Preamble in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements, and shall take effect as between them as soon as all their several instruments of ratification shall have been deposited at This treaty shall when it has come into effect as prescribed in the preceding para graph, remain open as long as may be necessary for adherence by all the other Powers of the world. Every instrument evidencing the adherence of a Power shall be deposited at and the treaty shall immediately upon such deposit become effective as between the Power thus adhering and the other Powers...
...strength of radio reception in connection with sun-spot observations. The study revealed that there was a definite correlation between the appearance of spots on the sun's surface and the conditions of radio reception. The new machine, by means of a device that is similar to a weather graph, can measure the amount of change that takes place in the signal strength of radios during the sun-spot cycle...
...BUILDERS OF AMERICA-Ellsworth Huntington & Leon F. Whitney -Morrow ($3.50). Unlike some advocates of birth control who whine for an indiscriminate decrease in the world-birth rate, Authors Huntington, able Yale environist, and Whitney, able Secretary of the American Eugenics Society, with many a diagram and graph, powerfully defend their contention that the intelligent minority should be more prolific. Most novel, indisputable, disastrous, are the statistics which they produce upon those who achieve irritating and ephemeral success during their collegiate careers, and who, when they graduate, are reluctant to duplicate their superiorities in offspring. Even chorus girls and stage ladies...
...they awarded to a still life by Henri Matisse. Perhaps it was unfortunate that the highest honors should fall to a Frenchman whose name is a legend in modern painting; but the picture, in which great brilliant fruits and flowers coiled themselves into a pattern like the graph of a sunset, made the award imperative...