Word: interpretations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insulin is given to lower the sugar in a diabetic. In the same way the appearance of the athletes after the race, with muscular twitching, extreme pallor, cold, moist skin and nervous irritability, was like that of a patient who has had an overdose of insulin. The scientists interpret the findings as indicating that the normal supply of the reserve blood sugar in the body is insufficient for such a prolonged and violent effort as a marathon race. They suggest that the state of shock that these runners manifested could have been prevented, or at least ameliorated, if a larger...
...time of the death report, but he was stated, during the past week, to be recovering. To a reporter, he said: "I have been deeply moved by the manifestations of sympathy which the false report of my death has elicited from the American people. I interpret this less as a personal tribute than evidence of continued American interest in the great processes of change and national readjustment with which I have been identified since and before the Chinese revolution...
Little has happened during the past week to make the general industrial outlook more cheerful, except perhaps a rally in stock prices. At this writing, the recovery in the stock market is still difficult to interpret with complete assurance. Nevertheless it bears the appearance simply of a "covering movement" by previous short sellers, and is consequently of mainly technical and temporary significance. It is noticeable that the stockmarket has given no real signs of accumulation, and that the strongest stocks have generally been those whose declines had produced a large "short interest...
...have been printed to the number of 250,000. "Yet," said a Moscow publisher, "the supply is far inferior to the demand. We could easily sell a million." A Moscow journal said: "We publish books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London and Upton Sinclair are more popular than Russian authors, the newspaper continued: "It is because old Russian literature...
...Topics of 1923" showed a varied assortment of songs, music, costumes, and stage settings, which helped to keep its audience well amused. The far-famed chorus was on hand; wearing costumes which even Mayor Curley could not object to. An orchestra leader named Alfred Goodman did a lot to interpret his own songs to the audience and to the suburban radio fans, and they must have had a gala night of it. Alice Delysia, of stage fame that has long been well established, was the last word in Parisian primal-donnas; while opposite her Nat Nazarro, Jr., showed a good...