Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future when a man behaves in a 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...
...method of attacking the problem. It seems to me that to help 25 refugee students through college by means of monetary subscriptions is short-sighted and unintelligent. I believe that the money to be raised should be used to help a mass of refugees to gain security in term of daily needs. To find means of getting out of Germany, to find a place to eat and sleep are their primary requisites. Higher education is at present a luxury for them...
...opera house of the U. S., Manhattan's Metropolitan, launched its 54th season, General Manager Edward Johnson and his associates found opera's financial and artistic graphs like those of the stockmarket. After a Depression, they appeared to be starting a slow, but not uniform long term rise. The statistics...
...proceeds he applied to reducing the funded debt, thereby saving interest charges. While the deficit piled up and stockholders gave up, he wiped out $40,000,000 of that debt in three years. Meanwhile he did some inspired financial broken-field running to escape creditors, wangling short-term loans to meet long-term loans and shorter-term loans to meet those...
Also militating against the appointment of a Westerner is the fact that the West was so discourteous to the New Deal in the last election. Together with diminishing the President's hopes for a third term, that election is reported to have angered the Chief Executive, and he is not considered likely to be in the mood for conciliating the West...