Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high altitudes oxygen deficiency is dangerous not only for physiological but for psychological reasons. Chronic effects of oxygen-want appear only in pilots, are never seen in casual passengers. "The point at which oxygen-want should be relieved in the pilot," declared Captain Armstrong, "is the subject of heated controversy. The average pilot thinks it is smart to go to a high altitude without oxygen. Oxygen-want is like alcohol. The worse off one is, the better he feels. It is regrettable that oxygen-want is not an extremely painful process...
Last summer, however, the Australian Lawn Tennis Association prevailed upon U. S. tennis bigwigs to permit Donald Budge, champion of the U. S. and England, to visit Australia. The Australians frankly wanted Champion Budge, a great one for form, to be seen and perhaps imitated by up & coming Australian tennists, of whom there are many. The U. S. L. T. A., feeling that Donald Budge could stand the gaff, acquiesced...
...letter arrived at Cavalcade's Fleet Street office from Hove, Sussex: Wherever the Roman Catholic Church was founded, its behaviour during the last few years has been no recommendation, for they evidently show their Christianity by massacre and slaughter both of defenceless mothers, and their own people, as seen in Abyssinia, Ireland and Spain. I would rather be a Moslem...
...Seen thus by dim and bobbling light were 229 objets d'art by 60 artists of 14 different nations, many of them expressive of war and spiritual suffering, many more bearing out the abstruse eroticism of the entrance hall. To Surrealists sex and horror are indescribable and somewhat confused; therefore they merely express themselves on these matters through a calculated but capricious symbolism. At least one exhibit was animated (see cut). One of the objects displayed was a suitcase containing a neatly packed skull and gas mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled...
...late Playwright Solomon Rappaport, writing as S. Ansky, wove the myth of the dybbuk into a Jewish folk play. The Dybbuk has since become the most famous item in Yiddish drama, even more widely known than The Golem (TIME, March 29). Every major city in the world has seen it staged; it has been translated into 17 tongues, including Esperanto. Rappaport died before his play was produced, but he left the rights to it in trust for the poor of Warsaw's ghetto. Last week, for the benefit of Polish Jews, Manhattan cinemagoers paid as high...