Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probably as stupid an attitude as any group could take. It is solely due to the unfortunate publicity attendant to the various peccadillos and misdemeanors of certain of the leading actors. It is uninteresting to the public to know that H. B. Warner, Dudley Digges and John Drew are normal gentlemen. As a publicity factor gentlemanliness is neglible. Yet their examples show that it is possible to make one's living from the bright side of the footlights without losing the respect of God and the Social Register...
...gradually exposed to the sun's rays until the whole body can be bared. In Winter the whole day is spent in the sunshine and dry, cold air. In Summer, only the morning hours. The cure should not be used unless the patient's temperature is normal. The rays have a direct physiological effect. Besides the sun, however, occupational therapy, exercise and a diet of oils and fats, are the rule. The French have adopted these methods enthusiastically in their Écoles de Plein...
...general results are produced as in the case of transplantation. Steinach himself makes no extravagant claims. He calls the effect " arrest within modest limits of the process of senility," and says the use of the term " rejuvenation " is unfortunate. It is merely the prolongation for varying periods of the normal functions of middle life...
...period of steadier and less expensive even if slower construction. An analysis of the country's building requirements shows that the present demand for buildings-a survival of the long war period of inadequate construction-would warrant for the next ten years a building program 25% above normal production. The problem will be to keep down the costs of this unusually large program, in order that when rentals fall to a lower and more stable basis, large speculative losses may be avoided. Just now contractors are confidently undertaking new projects again, aided by the big insurance companies and other...
...exhibitions. The municipality was at its wits' end?not how to accommodate the throngs?but how to keep down the price of beer. For the Brewers' Association had agreed among themselves to triple the price of Münchener, and not until the Bavarian government intervened was the normal level reaffirmed. (For Ludendorff's speech see page...