Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...properly conducted "bull session'' has a good effect, for after his students had discussed works of art, their ratings of those works agreed more closely with experts' opinions. Few subjects realized their opinions had been changed by discussion. One girl told Dr. Simpson she was still of the same mind as before. Yet on her second test she unconsciously swung 17 points toward a consensus of experts...
...moist ground it remains intact indefinitely. If it is dirty, it can be brushed vigorously without hurting the writing. In the mounds which were piled up by the debris of Babylonian cities built one on top of another the author estimates that 99% of history's cuneiform writings still await discovery. The Babylonians and Assyrians wrote a great deal-records of lawsuits, family archives, commercial ledgers, domestic inventories; contracts, bills of sale; schoolbooks; legends of goods and achievements of kings...
...reanimate this legendary quarter. He ploughs without inspiration through genealogies of the successive owners of peripheral café-concerts where Lautrec occasionally had a drink. It is interesting to learn that Jane Avril, the delicate dancer of the Moulin Rouge whose skull-like face Lautrec loved to draw, still lives and remembers him. Mr. Mack's research on other entertainers and sporting characters is praiseworthy and necessary. But Lautrec's garish, glamorous and vicious milieu remains sunk beneath two generations...
Statistical answers were preponderantly optimistic. Engineering construction awards of $49,229,000 were 16% over the same week in 1937. Carloadings, risen 2.3% from the previous week, were still off about 20% from last year. Store sales, off 12% fortnight ago, were only down 6% from 1937 last week. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce declared: "All of the evidence points to some improvement in business. ... It is too early to know the strength present trends will develop. ..." The New York Times was less optimistic. Its business index fell and when commercial, industrial and agricultural loans by New York member banks...
...dropped out of sight. Hatch covers are sucked off like corks out of a bottle. The funnel is gone, the boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those...