Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pickering's sage comment cut two ways, of course. It might reduce an anti-modern-art splutterer here & there to temporary silence. It could also make those on the other side of the fence feel uncomfortably esoteric...
...Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 10 sides). Fritz Reiner's performance of this great work for Columbia (TIME, Jan. 3) may hold the edge in fire and power; but the fine work of the Concertgebouw, and the spaciousness and detail of Decca's recording, make this...
...fact that cancer cells make a difference measurable in electricity may be a clue to the nature of cancer. A possible explanation lies not in the cancer cells themselves, but in the relation between cancer and normal cells. Cancer cells are "antisocial" or "immoral" and run wild in the body; the test may measure the resulting disturbance. It is possible, Drs. Burr and Langman speculated in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, that cancer is a defect "in the design of the organism." If later experiments prove this to be true, they reasoned, there would be no one cause...
Present-day Western civilization, says Sir Heneage, has made it hard to make proper use of the mind. Man was better off in the Middle Ages, when he had a better chance of 1) a job that demanded individual skill, 2) some security, and 3) a sense of doing something useful in the community. Modern man has been straining so long after success, often doing a job he dislikes, that the strain has become second nature. Men of today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they...
...life was concerned, he had picked a good day. In addition to the song & dance acts, there was an added attraction-motion pictures of ocean waves. It was Joseph M. Schenck's first movie, and he could hardly believe his eyes. Said Joe: "Somebody will make a million dollars...