Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because they know how long it takes for uranium to "die," scientists can tell how old a deposit is from the proportion of live uranium and inactive uranium lead found side by side within it. Mineral deposits have been dated back nearly two billion years by means of the uranium-lead timepiece...
Fact is that, though they can find plenty of substitutes for blacklisted symphonies and operas, Nazis on dancing bent hardly know which way to turn. Last month an article in Die Spielschar, organ of the Hitler Youth Movement, moped long and heavily over this question. Die Spielschar agreed that the motions prescribed by swing are unworthy of a sober man, but protested that rump-slapping peasant dances were equally inappropriate for sophisticated Germans. With these two categories of dancing verboten, there would be nothing left but waltzes. "For those who seek a way to graceful and natural German dancing," sighed...
...view of the above bit of Biblical maritime history, antiquarians have long been convinced that King Solomon in his years of splendor had a port on the Red Sea, but they did not know where it was. Last week Dr. Millar Burrows of Yale announced that the port had been found by explorations and excavations near Aqaba. The finder is Dr. Nelson Glueck, heading an expedition of the American School for Oriental Research. Aqaba is a town encircled by towering granite hills on a narrow gulf at the Red Sea's northern end. During the War it was captured...
...Assistant Surgeon General, solemn, tight-voiced Raymond Aloysius Vonderlehr, specialist on these diseases, figures that the U. S. has 6,000,000 victims of syphilis, 12,000,000 of gonorrhea. He does not know how many suffer from chancroids. Gonorrhea, he says, afflicts three times as many men, women and children as tuberculosis, four times as many as scarlet fever, 27 times as many as diphtheria, 58 times as many as typhoid, 100 times as many as infantile paralysis...
...deeper sense it is a dramatization of the moral conflicts that began years before, when the innocent Sergeant Grischa was executed. Aside from a few confusing passages about characters who appear in the previous books, it makes interesting reading in its own right. But it gains greatly if readers know the plan of Zweig's cycle of novels...