Word: reviewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely Der Führer admitted last week that a dozen rasping speeches, plus hours standing with right arm rising and falling as the party members passed in review are always a "personal and physical strain," and he welcomed the cool weather in Nürnberg. "When you keep moving your arm up and down in salute for hours at a stretch, you generate heat," Hitler laughed. "This continuous movement, coupled with the emotional strain, is very trying...
...true recipe for longevity," said Dr. F. A. E. Crew of University of Edinburgh, president of the zoology section, "is to be born a girl." Dr. Crew found informative reading matter in the British Statistical Review of the Registrar-General. In the tables for 1935 he found that in England and Wales 105.6 boys were born for every 100 girls. Of babies who died in the last three months of pregnancy there were 110 boys to 100 girls. And after birth the mortality rate at all ages was higher for males than for females. Thus although boys constituted a majority...
These facts & figures were set forth last April in a president's review by the Foundation's able new President Raymond Elaine Fosdick. Last week this review was included in a full annual report, detailing all the ultimate capillary destinations of the flow of gold which last year poured from the heart of the Rockefeller philanthropic empire in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center-much but by no means all of it under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., chairman of the Foundation's board of trustees. The following is a sample- very far short...
...broke through the line to the north river bank held for many hours about five full blocks of Whangpoo dockyards. Promptly the Japanese warships in midstream upped anchor and steamed slowly past the broken line Too close to depress the muzzles of their big guns sufficiently, they passed in review pouring a hot stream of fire from every machine gun and light cannon into the Chinese lines...
...contribute their talents to the cause of Spanish democracy, has a record of high achievement. Besides Author Hemingway, who wrote and recites the infrequent but unforgettably eloquent narrative lines, there were five other unusually meritorious contributors. Director Ivens and his photographer, John Ferno, won the National Board of Review's second award for a foreign film* last year with their filming of the damming of the Zuyder Zee. The sonorous Hispanic melodies that play in and out of The Spanish Earth were arranged by two of the most imaginative modern musicians in the U. S.-Virgil Thomson (Four Saints...