Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charley McCarthys with himself as the sole Edgar Bergen to pull the strings and supply the vocalisms." Atlanta Journal: "Great is the President's prestige, and great the admiration in which Georgians hold him. But assuredly he cannot do their thinking for them." Charlotte News: "The thing is, in its practical aspect, a desperate and precarious gamble. . . . If the President wins, it will be a famous victory. . . . But the chance is more than even that he won't win . . . and that will genuinely be the 'stunning blow...
...Physiological Congress at Zurich, Switzerland, that all 200 of the rats gave birth to average-sized litters. Synthetic Vitamin E is just as strong as the natural product, does not seem to keep so long, has not yet been tried on humans. How it works, no one knows. One thing is certain: Vitamin E does not stimulate the sex glands...
...psychoanalysis has become a concentration point for a half-dozen leading U. S. publishers, who are bidding for his incomplete next book. Sums bid have not been disclosed, but are called "tremendous," meaning, probably, somewhere between $10,000 and $25,000. That publishers are bidding on a good thing seems reasonably sure. Freud's work-in-progress is a psychological study of the Old Testament, with special emphasis on Moses (who, thinks Freud, was Egyptian, not Jewish); his theme, that the Bible is an unconscious expression of man's own fears and aspirations. (This thesis he first broached...
...Green Worlds he tries to do the same thing for the U. S. village of "Mount Brookville." His technique is the same: he describes the agricultural problem in terms of case histories. But he is handicapped by the fact that the Americans he met talked about themselves only when they were excited; Russians talked about themselves all the time...
...their sessions the Esperantists discussed only one thing: how to popularize their synthetic lingo. Though the League boasts more than 1,500,000 Esperantists all over the world, Esperanto has been threatened for four years by the popularity of Basic English, the skeleton tongue (vocabulary: 850 words) designed by Orthologer Charles Kay Ogden. Esperanto in Esperanto means "one who hopes." The somewhat frantic hope of last week's Kongreso in Londono, Anglujo, was that Esperanto should not become a dead language before it ever showed real signs of life in either of its intended capacities...