Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Cezanne was published and accepted almost at once as a definitive biography. Painstaking and fully documented, it presented Cezanne as a great intuitive inventor in the art of painting; and its sympathetic account of the artist's crotchety life cleared the air of much second-rate chatter. Biographer Mack's new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso...
...first air raids may not be on Central London at all but on the traffic jams around it," warns Professor Haldane. "In Spain, at any rate, the German airmen seem to prefer to attack concentrated traffic, whether on wheel or on foot, rather than to bomb buildings, when they have the choice. ... In Barcelona one dives for the nearest shelter, leaving one's car in the street with the ignition key in place, so that it may be used by officials if necessary. ... I would far rather be in Central London during a big air raid than...
...male hormone and in two months they were definitely on their way toward masculinity. "A single administration," said the scientists, ". . . had produced masculinization which would otherwise have required either frequent injection of androgen [male hormone] or the presence of a transplanted testis." It was discovered that the rate at which the tablets were absorbed ranged from 2% a month for the female hormones to 25% for the male hormones. Best way to insure adequate absorption, said Drs. Deanesly and Parkes, was to use a number of smaller, tablets rather than one large...
...last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical conversations about woman's responsibilities, that it might have been written in an effort to check Britain's declining birth rate. Mother of three sons and a daughter, Enid Bagnold in private life is Lady Roderick Jones, wife of the chairman of Reuters, leading British news agency...
...Athletics, cannot be but completely gratifying. The fact that a predominance of the undergraduate body placed athletics first among extra-curricular activities in the Crimson poll of last spring amply demonstrated the importance of House sports. The present report further points toward increasing importance. A tripling in the participation rate since class athletics gave way to House sports, a doubling of the available sports, an increase to 57 percent participation all are irrefutable indications...