Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this phenomenon. Like most Europeans, he said, Danes were slow to install central heating systems, common in U. S. homes. Throughout the long, cold winters they shivered, exercised, ate heavily to generate their own body heat. But recently Denmark acquired hot-air furnaces and steam radiators. Result: the Danes, still eating heavily, lounge comfortably in their warm rooms, convert the excess food into fat instead of heat...
Although a modern country doctor makes his calls in an automobile, 55,000,000 U. S. rural dwellers are still getting horse-&-buggy medical care. To gather facts on this problem, the staff of Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N. Y., under the direction of Physician-in-Chief George Miner Mackenzie, last autumn held a conference of country doctors and public-health experts. Last week the papers of the Cooperstown Conference were published in a well-documented handbook, containing the most complete information on U. S. rural medicine to date.* Significant facts...
Last year Dr. Charlie rated the longest entry in Who's Who, but he still remained a bluff, kindly farm doctor. He spoke of tumors "large as turnips," of goiters like ears of corn shedding their husks. On his fertile farm "Mayowood" he delighted to show guests his hothouses, which were roofed not with window panes, but with old X-ray plates taken from the Clinic. At night, instead of stars, curious visitors saw bones and intestines outlined against the heavens...
Hans Fallada (Little Man, What Now?), though not a Nazi, is still popular in Germany. But his Iron Gustav has been quietly blacklisted. Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia. Edwin Erich Dwinger's The Last Horsemen describes the futile attempt of a gang of German frontier soldiers to invade Courland and make it a German province...
...race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told Germans to "think with their blood," but so far "blood-thinking" has produced almost no good books. Hitler himself is the best seller (Mem Kampf with a total sale of over 4,000,000 copies is still tops), yet, despite the 25,000 books a year, the Nazis are continuing to bottle-feed an undersized body of literature that should long ago have outgrown official diapers...