Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agents saw her in Berlin the day hostilities began, riding triumphantly with Chief of Police Jagow. (He had originally called on her to complain about her dancing naked in a Berlin night club, remained to engage her for the German Intelligence.) Back in France, she continued leading her conspicuous life, apparently unafraid. The French knew she was spying but could pin nothing on her. They decided to deport her, whereat she broke down and offered to spy for France. They sent her to Belgium to work on General Moritz von Bissing, the German military governor. She proceeded from there...
...authors of High Schools and Sex Education, lectures by school physicians on elementary facts of animal life (such as many schools provide) are not sex education. They believe that adolescents are more troubled by emotional, psychological, social and spiritual questions about sex than by the physical facts. Consequently, they recommended that sex education be distributed throughout the curriculum-in biology, hygiene, physical education, science, history, literature courses...
Prime requirement for sex education, said Authors Gruenberg & Kaukonen, is that its teachers (preferably married) should have a balanced outlook on life, be optimistic, poised, sympathetic to young people's problems, of upright character. A teacher must also be able to see that sex is sometimes funny, must be able to use humor without vulgarity, must never le his pupils get the impression that they have heard more dirty jokes than...
...unpaid job in the Ministry of Information's Home Publicity Department. Father Selfridge, now definitely in retirement, plans after visiting Chicago to return to his London office (whose windows are covered with autographs etched in with a diamond-pointed pencil) and work on a life of Cosimo de' Medici...
...enough to patch them up. When Japanese undo his handiwork by bombing the hospital, a shrapnel splinter lodges in Dr. Beaven's scientific brain, stays there until Dr. Forster, rushing by plane, sampan and pony, arrives in time to remove it, in the most delicate operation of his life. Science, says he, can do no more, but science cannot bring Dr. Beaven out of his coma. When Audrey's timely arrival turns the trick, Dr. Forster piously admits that some things baffle even science...