Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Senators were smacking the Administration's face with a negative (see p. 12), Representatives last week smacked it with a positive. Taking control of the Rules Committee right out of the hands of aged Chairman Sabath, they rammed through a new lease of life for the Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities, chairmanned by Texas' large, lucky Martin Dies, then whooped it through the House by a vote...
...during the World War, Britain will compensate her servicemen for casualties on the battlefields of the next war. In the next war, however, announced Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Britain will also compensate civilian wage-earners for loss of life or injury and property owners for loss or damage of property "as far as circumstances permit" -i. e., as long as the treasury is able to pay. In order to keep vital trade going during a war, the Government has worked out an insurance scheme with Lloyd's of London and eight other insurance concerns, which will...
...sexes or the eternal Harvard-Radcliffe battle for supremacy in all walks of life now appears on the bowling alley with four female pin slaughterers, taking the initiative by challenging all Harvard comers...
...Ascent, Vag muses, is little better than The Descent. The numbness which has held him in thrall all this time--and which has been the only thing to make life possible at all in the long torturing weeks of the Biannual Heat--now stubbornly refuses to depart. Everything--mind, body,--seems permanently, albeit painlessly, frozen with the icy breath of the Great Fear, which is said to be the odorless exhaust generated by one of the machines which throb all around Vag. Once or twice since The Descent began, Vag has been able to rouse himself from this lethargy...
...Hollywood studying Disney's work, which he described last fall as "perhaps the only universal art form in history; it is what I like to call twentieth century folk art. Using science unselfconsciously, it embodies the total achievement of the human race to date and puts true movement and life into...