Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union among the remnants of the exploiting classes and among foreign traitors!" came Stalin's voice off the phonograph record. The U. S. translator of Trotsky's works, Max Eastman, was termed by Stalin "a notorious swindler and the leader of a horde of writing bandits who live only by slandering the working class and the Soviet Union...
...book (1922), legends of Dr. Gogarty's near-mythical person have been stealing round the world like a slow smile. His many friends in Dublin could swear he was flesh-&-blood, but it was not till this week that the struggle for existence between the live doctor and the fictitious medical student began to look like a fair fight. Gogarty had published in the U. S. two books of verse (Wild Apples and Selected Poems; TIME, Nov. 27, 1933) which indicated that his Joycean counterpart was merely a portrait of the doctor as a young man; this week...
...least. Many thoughtful people would prefer to let the law stand, rather than suffer the baptism by fire of the public debate. This is an unnecessary retreat, however, directed by considerations of the moment. A number of the legislators who led the fight against repeal last year no longer live on the public payroll. And it is to be hoped that those who fought the good fight will carry on, and let the next assault go over the top to trimuph...
Usually Henry A. Fowler, technician in charge of instruments, has a supply of live spiders bottled for immediate use. A "lazy, male spider" will not produce the tiny, uniformly strong web which is required, so small female spiders must be caught...
...reader will recognize as a masterpiece, is the reprinted The Man Who Conquered Death. Herr Fiala, an ex-doorman at a government office, had been retired for old age, spent all his savings on a life-insurance policy. All he understood about the policy was that he had to live past his 65th birthday; otherwise his wife would get nothing. But weeks before the date he had to go to the hospital; he was dying. Though the doctors all said he had no business to be still alive, old Fiala hung on, by main strength and will power managed...