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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toned up if they are gently coaxed into action as soon as the acute stage of the disease has passed (usually four or five weeks after first symptoms). Most popular form of exercise is warm water swimming, skillfully taught at President Roosevelt's "other home": Warm Springs, Ga. Less publicized, but requiring less equipment and equally effective is stimulation of muscle contraction by electric current. A large, "indifferent" electrode is placed over the spine, and a smaller, "active" one over a paralyzed muscle. The current is turned on and the muscle "tickled" six to ten times a minute. Gradually...
...expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds. A boon to doctors, Professor Marker's synthetic hormones will cost far less than natural sheep and cow products. Professor Marker warned Penn State's publicity department to warn the press not to sensationalize his sarsaparilla. Worried Penn State promptly sent out the following "confidential" release...
...radio speeches and from foreign recordings, the producers caught Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier in action, fitted their own voices into the pattern of war in the making. Momentous remarks: Chamberlain, after Munich (sounding like a man having trouble with his uppers): "I believe it is peace for our time"; Hitler, less than a year later (while a quieter voice translates): "Our soldiers have been shot at, and since 5:45 a. m. we have been shooting back." Two days later, in the thick French of Daladier: "The cause of France is the cause of Justice"; and brokenly, from Downing Street...
...fantasies, of extraordinary documentary power. It was also known to a number of readers as a piece of uproarious pornography. Rather than invite another legal battle like that over Joyce's Ulysses, Publisher Laughlin last month brought out The Cosmological Eye, a book of more or less castrated selections from Miller's writing. By doing this much, New Directions called attention to Miller's latest long book, Tropic of Capricorn, published in Paris this year...
Twice to Once. First published in autumn 1938, Twice A Year has established itself as a distinguished periodical, more original in essence if less "experimental" in a literary way than the New Directions annual. Combining autumn 1939 and spring 1940 in a fat third number, the current Twice A Year temporarily assumes annual status. It is edited, designed, published and supported by a calm, brown-eyed, well brought up Philadelphian named Dorothy Norman who takes literature and liberalism both together and equally seriously...