Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders faced more than the loss of their country at the railway stations in Rumania. No trains ran to the destination that they had to face. The Republic was dead. In its 20 years of life it had grown despite the fact that it had only a period between 1926 and 1929, some 30 months at most, of prosperity. The men who divided it talked of the injustice of the treaty of Versailles...
Twilight of Man is illustrated with Hooton's own drawings, one of which thoroughly illustrates the phenomenon of steatopygia - an accumulation of fat on the posterior - which appears in the females of some primitive human types, and which probably helped some women of the Glacial Period to keep warm when skimpier males crowded them from the fire. Hooton "apologizes" for his drawings thus: "Amateur illustration by an author is like profanity in conversation. It probably serves no useful purpose and certainly is shocking and objectionable to many, but the perpetrator enjoys...
Best procedure when treating a victim of "intractable" pain, said Dr. Rutherford, is to send him to a hospital for a week. During the first half of the week he is given daily intramuscular venom injections of two or three cubic centimeters each. During this "saturation" period his pain is as agonizing as ever, and he usually needs heavy doses of morphine or other opiates. But within four or five days the venom seeps through his system and anesthetizes pain areas of his higher nerve centres. Gradually his pain dies away. After the first saturation period, the physician, by cautious...
...aged and resigned Italian prince. None of it is more interesting than the implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show off his Greek), but his grasp of real experience is weaker...
...base figures of American industrial production indicate that our facilities are fully adequate for probable war needs, and indeed that "there was ample unused capacity during the period 1920-35 to support a major war," Colonel Rutherford held. The United States is self-sufficient in most of the raw materials needed for munitions, and has begun to stock up on those whose importation might be stopped...