Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolution period has been the Soviet cinema's favorite topic, but it has never before presumed to characterize its now-deified hero. Actor Shchukin's profile is Lenin's to the eyelash. From biographies, letters, newsreels and associates of Lenin he got Lenin's impatient, nervously-energetic demeanor down pat. In the film he thumbs his vest, shifts uneasily whenever he has to stay seated, drives his points home with emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played...
...about a decade ago by a Chinese scientist named Pei Wen-chung; and the Java apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus, discovered on the banks of Java's Bengaman River in 1892, by Dutch Anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Both of these oldsters appear to have lived at the beginning of the Glacial Period-roughly 1,000,000 years...
...Miller tells his patient: "1) Ovulation occurs 14 days before the following menstruation; 2) the egg cell can be fertilized only during the twelve-hour period immediately following its emergence from the [ovary]; 3) the fertilizing ability of the sperm cell in the female genital tract is maintained for not more than 24 to 36 hours." From those biological facts and the woman's record of her longest period Dr. Miller marks a calendar by which she and her husband may guide themselves. As an added precaution he advises continence two days before and two days after ovulation, thus...
...glass of lemonade. In those days a Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post characters in 1937 not only drank, smoked and swindled, but in one story (George Sessions Perry's Edgar and the Dank Morass) a backwoods sweetheart behaved with almost Erskine Caldwell abandon, although her behavior was suggested rather than described...
...early life Walt Whitman was a conventional poet of modest gifts, a Brooklyn editor, author of a dull temperance novel, a Democrat, a radical. In the Civil War, after years of drifting, he found himself, and for a brief period became the great spokesman for the spirit of radical humanitarianism. But the exact steps of his transformation are not known and even the biographical details of his life are confused, as Whitman apparently intended they should...