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...Goodale was the director of the Botanical Museum then. He was trying to open the field of economic botany--the area that ties plants in with man's food, clothing, and shelter--and plant physiology. In addition, he was a strong rival of the Zoology Department and most jealous of their exhition of jelly fish and other marine life done in glass...
...acres of fertile Missouri and Kansas farm land. He sold the family property as fast as possible. "Sentiment," said he, "don't mean a damn thing to me." Pleasanton was too small for Carl Hall. "People got their noses up at me," he complained. "They're jealous because I got money. I'll show 'em how money and brains can really get goin...
...unworthy contribution to the great love literature of the world." Written in a style often "reminiscent of Goethe," they combine "exquisite tenderness . . . range of vocabulary . . . wealth of allusion.'' They are also a fascinating guide to the man behind the neurologist: from them emerges suddenly a tough, jealous, ferocious figure, resembling a young Napoleon...
Object of Horror. Comedy took matters a stage further. Dr. Breuer became so fascinated by Anna's hysteria that Mrs. Breuer grew madly jealous. So Breuer stopped seeing Anna, who promptly flew into "the throes of an hysterical childbirth, the logical termination of a phantom pregnancy that had been invisibly developing in response to Breuer's ministrations...
...pleasure to see a magazine of your caliber devote a little intelligent attention to the sport of weight lifting [Sept. 14], a form of athletic competition which, in its rude forms, is as ancient as any . . . and is deserving of more than the jealous jeers hurled at it by lesser...