Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the outset the story moves at a rapid pace, short brisk chapters, each one which brings a new complex of situations or new discoveries to . The dialogue and characters are very convincing and the dull moments that do occur lost thought of by reason of the inevitability with which the dilemma arises at the end of every chapter...
...Ajer will present in a popular way the general methods, philosophy and objectives of the research scientist. Experiments with interesting scientific "gadgets" on the stage will brighten the lecture and will clearly reveal the new kind of tools which are being developed to keep pace with the fast growing field of electrical control in the modern world...
...more eager are people to spend before prices go still higher. Currency swiftly becomes a figment of a paper imagination. Owners of bonds, of bank deposits, of life insurance policies, of pensions find the value of their holdings reduced to microscopic size. Wages and salaries cannot keep pace with rising prices. The quantity of goods sold drops to less & less in spite of every one's eagerness to buy. Business comes to a standstill. The Government's credit goes to pot. Then, as in Germany after the War, when everyone is ruined except a few profiteers, sanity returns...
...body; the sympathetic nervous system carries the power impulses throughout the body; the adrenal glands control the power; and the frontal lobe of the brain, seat of intelligence, is the driver. The tempo of modern life causes the frontal lobe to drive the adrenals at too fast a pace. The adrenals overwork, and cause the thyroid to lose more power than the body can stand. Follows goiter, diabetes, peptic ulcer, heart ailments. Reasoned Dr. Crile, "If this interpretation is correct, then this entire group of neurogenic diseases should be abated or cured by removal of the thyroid, when the disease...
Despite the ever-quickening strides of science along the various frontiers of modern medicine, it will be the teaching rather than the research function, which will have to be reinforced and elaborated to meet the pace of modern life. A new frontier for medical advancement has been opened in America; the social and economic field. The depression has pointed out the vast gap between the poor farmer's purse and the metropolitan specialist's price for advice or operation. Scientific treatment in developing from the nightmare practices of early medicine, has also become expensive...