Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creating healthier, more intelligent human beings. Absent from the meeting for political reasons best known to the Soviet Government were 50 Russian delegates, including the head of the Congress, famed Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who is out of favor in Russia because he does not believe in the long-outmoded inheritance of acquired characteristics (TIME, June 26). Communists prefer to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Called home from the meeting were all the European delegates. Professor Gunnar Dahlberg of Sweden was the only one who stubbornly refused to leave...
Genius and Kallikaks. Whether children inherit temperament, intelligence, musical talent or various diseases is a genetic question that has long worried Manhattan Freelance Journalist Amram Scheinfeld. To solve his problems he consulted a score of famous U. S. geneticists, read several hundred treatises on heredity. This week Journalist Scheinfeld published the first sound, popular treatise on the facts & fictions of heredity.*Main theme of the book is that heredity and environment are a dynamic combination, that development of personality is not governed exclusively by one or the other. Some of his points...
Last week the U. S. press had its biggest story since 1918, and what might be its last chance for a long time to cover as big a story in comparative freedom. If war came, censorship would reign over most of the British Isles and the Continent. Faced with this opportunity, the press covered everything it could find out about Europe's Seven Days as no story had ever been covered before...
...real upswing came in 1934 when two things happened: 1) RCA began to remember and worry about its long dormant record business; 2) a brand new concern, Decca, entered the field with a sheaf of fresh ideas. Dapper, bespectacled Jack Kapp and his codirector, Edward R. Lewis, had long contended that what the country needed was a good 35? record (standard prices had previously ranged from 75? to $2). Signing up big names in the popular field (biggest: Crooner Bing Crosby-see p. 50), Decca put this contention to the test, and sales began to skyrocket. Today, the five-year...
...theory of its founder, hot-eyed, white-bearded General William Booth, that you cannot save a man's soul when his feet are cold and his stomach empty, it adds soup and soap to the salvation. Thanks also to Founder Booth, the Army's General long occupied the most autocratic throne of charity on earth, armed with a set of rules which gave him dictatorial powers, even to naming his successor. Son Bramwell was so named when General William Booth died...