Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening face-off will be preceded by the first period of the game starting at 8 o'clock between Clark Hodder's Freshman team and Framingham High...
...series of low-priced books published in paper covers, and attempting to present good books cheaply; second, Duranty as an acute observer of the Great Experiment in Russia since 1920 is able to comment interestingly on the intimate effects of this experiment on the people over a considerable period of time...
...revolution of 1917, membership in a trade union was made compulsory by Lenin and 1,500,000 Russians were soon enrolled, with the State deducting union dues from their pay. In 1921 this policy was reversed, and Lenin made trade union membership voluntary. In the early Five-Year Plan period, Russian trade union officials were still attempting to bargain collectively with the Soviet State. They played a considerable role in shaping its wages and hours policies. In recent years Moscow dispatches have reported that this collective bargaining role of Soviet trade unions has "withered away," that the Kremlin has reduced...
...beating heart. With inadequate motion-picture equipment at Philadelphia, he was not able to see this living rhythm until he went to studv at the Pasteur Institute in France where films had been made and slowed down 100 times. The Physarum pulse was seen to have a period of about 45 seconds. Dr. Seifriz rejects the older theories attributing protoplasmic movement to surface tension, electric potentials, etc. "I ask the reader," he wrote recently in Science, "merely to admit that protoplasm is alive, for in so doing, he tacitly grants that it exhibits irritability, in other words, nervous response...
Tracing this distinction from the feudal period to the totalitarian state, with a vast display of scholarship, innumerable quotations, occasional flashes of bitter humor, Dr. Vagts includes two brilliant sections that might well be reprinted as separate volumes. One is a provocative analysis of the pre-War German army, its officers split into snobbish cliques, undermining the plans of their rivals without regard for the cost of human life. The other is a soberly inspiring appraisal of Washington as a military genius who is almost unique in history in that he had no militaristic ambitions. Net conclusion...