Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow Jack was being released last week, the Satevepost published a searching review of the yellow-fever problem entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored...
...tutorial is designed "to guide students in their respective fields, to assist them in coordinating the knowledge derived from other courses, and to stimulate them in the reading habit." Since a review of the elementary courses is all that is necessary to pass the general exam, the tutors do not go out of their way to corral their tutees, but if approached they are ready, willing, and competent to suggest and advise...
...Committee suggests that "those attending a review go to it with a few definite questions in mind, rather than with the hope that the instructor will run through a year's work...
...taken in Berlin's gloomy old Moabit Court behind doors closed to press and public. Presumably to quash rumors of the trial's being a political persecution, both press' and public were admitted last day when the presiding judge had his final say. In a frank review of a sordid case, the judge found von Cramm guilty of immorality with an 18-year-old Galician Jew named Manasse Herbst who eventually blackmailed von Cramm to the tune of $12,000, hopped off to Palestine. Sentence pronounced: one year in jail, with the two months already spent...
Having previously absorbed Current Opinion, the Digest last June was itself absorbed by Review of Reviews. After four months, it was again sold, but on February 24 it suspended publication. Purchase of the Digest by TIME, which will fulfill the 250,000 subscriptions now in the Digest's books, was consummated with George F. Havell, who last controlled it in behalf of a syndicate...