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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acoustic nerve, a soft strand the diameter of a slate pencil. In Ménière's Disease only the balancing mechanism of the ear is impaired and all that is essential is to cut only the fibres which conduct balancing sensations. Brain surgeons, like exalted telephone repairmen selecting particular lines in a many-stranded cable, tried with little success?to pick out the balancing fibres of the acoustic nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meniere's Disease | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...Well, anyway, he was stopping here at the Hotel Lincoln with 1,500 other people. But on this particular night. I needed his help badly. Mungkee had just come home from the hospital, where she had had an operation performed. The bandages seemed to hurt her and, foolishly, I took them off. Well, she was in a dreadful condition, and I was simply frantic. So I called Leonard on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cat & Callers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...also written numerous articles for such magazines as Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, Forum, Scribner's, and the New Republic, of which he is a contributing editor. Of particular interest was his article "Whose Child NRA," in the August issue of Harper's, in which he demonstrated that the National Industrial Recovery Act, with the exception of Section 7a, was framed by for, and in the interests of big business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN T. FLYNN TO SPEAK IN NEW LECTURE HALL | 12/14/1934 | See Source »

Your inference that Harvard College should pander to the demands of fanatical football fans even though it knows this to be "wrong" is foreign to the traditions of any free educational institution and to Harvard in particular. If an educational institution stands for anything it should stand for intellectual and moral honesty. Your suggestion that it should depart from this ideal (I do not deny than in the past it has not been constantly adhered to unfortunately) is a disgrace to your own integrity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fund In Football | 12/11/1934 | See Source »

...years with Chatto & Windus), he retired to his Surrey cottage six years ago to give all his time to his own manuscripts. The late Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really do interest him. And misprints-especially when he has read the proofs himself-give him neuralgia and even worse afflictions. . . . Medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Guide | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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