Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expensive Onslaught. Well might a costly symbol of Victory rise above Montfaucon Memorial, looking down on Argonne Forest. There took place the biggest battle in U. S. History. There was lost the Lost Battalion. There the Tennessee Conscientious Objector Alvin York captured 132 Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
...parts of Europe who have managed to get to Paris for this high-powered intellectual carnival. Among French scientists who have collaborated to make and staff the Palace of Discovery is Mine Curie-Joliot, eminent chemist daughter of the discoverer of radium. One completely round room exhibits the mathematical symbol pi (ordinarily figured as equal to 3,1416) worked out to such a length that the resulting decimal winds three times around the room. At intervals is heard a phonograph transcription of a short lecture by one of France's greatest mathematicians, briefly outlining a few of the countless...
...Harlow, 26, platinum-blonde cinemactress; of cerebral edema (swelling of the brain), following acute uremia; in Hollywood's Good Samaritan Hospital. Christened Harlean Carpentier, reared in Kansas City, Jean Harlow became with Hell's Angels (1930), a top-rank star and the cinema's No. 1 symbol of sex appeal. She held her rank with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Blonde Bombshell, China Seas, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first husband, with whom she eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went to Hollywood...
...erotic, tormented mind of the late Playwright Frank Wedekind, a woman named Lulu was a symbol of insatiability. His two plays about her (Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora) showed people helplessly racked by passion, preached: "Only children have reason; men are animals." Composer Alban Berg articulated the same opinion with his opera Wozzeck. When he based an opera on Wedekind's Lulu, Berg produced the most impressive monument of lust in all musical literature. When orchestral excerpts from it were played at the Berlin Staatsoper, extra police squads stood by to govern the crowds. Lulu was given...
...Chrysler was down from a 1937 high of $135 to $106; Radio from $12.75 to about $8.75; U. S. Rubber from $72 to $52, Nash-Kelvinator from nearly $25 to $18; U. S. Gypsum from $137 to $107; General Electric from $64 to $50. Even such a symbol of stability as American Telephone & Telegraph was off 24 points from its 1937 high ($187). Railroad issues alone have demonstrated any real resistance to the market trend, the Dow-Jones rail averages still being well above the level of the year-end. Utilities, running as usual in their own particular bear market...