Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frango, but reported that he soon had reason to believe that the crew were violating the law. He said they brought in humpback whales shorter than 35 feet and whales which were nursing their young. Although the crew had insisted at the outset that they were experts at telling the length of a whale in the water, they now argued: "It's difficult to tell how long they are." Then they told him that they found the whales "dead and floating." When Midtlyng pointed out that the dead whales bore harpoon marks, the whalers had no comeback...
Professor Graebner told the Dies Committee in Washington that the Federal Council "meddled incessantly in political affairs, invariably sponsoring the ideals of radical groups." The Federal Council then holding its biennial meeting in Buffalo, did not tell Heckler Graebner or Congressman Dies to go chase himself. Instead it telegraphed a long defense, listing the "distinguished church leaders" who were present at its deliberations...
Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Short described the historic deflation which followed, the case of a human being who parted with 60% of her body and lived to tell the tale. During the first month she lost twelve pounds, in 20 months she got rid of 239 pounds. Only discomfort she suffered was the surgical removal of an apron of skin, two feet long and one foot wide, which hung loosely over her deflated abdomen. When she weighed in at 156 pounds, said Dr. Short, "she was in excellent health and spirits...
...criminal manner, we will not say he is crazy or vicious. . . . Instead we will know that too much pyruvic acid has accumulated in his thalamic cells, or that there is no cocarboxylase, a high-brow term for Vitamin BI, operating in his thalamus. We will be able to tell that he did not grow enough association neurones descending from his cortex, so that now he does not deliver enough acetylcholine to his mid-brain...
Main criticisms of U. S. literary clubwomen about U. S. publishing are that books cost too much, are too long, that publishers try to dictate their reading habits by high-pressure publicity. In San Antonio, for example, club members snubbed Laura Krey's highly publicized romance, . . . and Tell of Time, preferred Jonathan Daniels' sober criticism, A Southerner Discovers the South. In Omaha, clubwomen feel that publishers pay too much attention to Manhattan opinion, not enough to the more spiritual interests of Midwesterners. But the major complaint of women's literary clubs throughout the U. S. is that...