Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf: "Dear, dear! How queer everything is today. But if I am not myself, who am I? Well, I'm sure I'm not Bismarck, for his hair was bristly and mine falls in a beautiful bang right over my left eye. And I can't be Napoleon, because he retreated from Moscow. . . . Oh, dear! I wish I could get my thoughts straight. Maybe it would help if I could hear the party catechism...
...Coelacanths, which had fins like rudimentary limbs and which were thought by scientists to have been extinct for 50,000,000 years?until last year, when an astonishing live Coelacanth was brought up in a fishing net off the South African coast (TIME, April 3). The lungfish of today are evolutionary laggards. By coming to the surface periodically for air, they can live in stagnant, oxygen-deficient water; when the water disappears during dry spells, they can survive for long periods buried in the mud, not eating, hardly breathing. Physiologist Homer William Smith of New York University, recounting in Natural...
...Today psychiatrists again apply with scientific refinements something very like medieval shock treatment to victims of schizophrenia (dementia praecox). Most common form of insanity, schizophrenia packs 200,000 patients in U. S. mental hospitals. Whether social, psychological or physical difficulties cause schizophrenia no one knows. A schizophrenic may believe that he is Napoleon, or that his children are trying to kill him. Or he may fall into rigid positions, lasting for hours. For many schizophrenics there are no more human emotions-only a slow retreat from life into deathlike stupor. Less than 6% are lucky enough to come back...
Among the five who qualified was Alvin Untermyer's Hexameter, ridden by Patricia Bolling, a 99-lb., 22-year-old wisp whom many experts consider the most skillful young horsewoman in the U. S. today. Though Hexameter was nosed out of victory by his stablemate, Illuminator, spectators who had kept their eyes on the horses agreed that Liz Whitney had lost her reign...
Periodically mankind pauses to Oh & Ah over the difference between the automobile of today and of 20 years ago. The difference between the motor truck of today and of ten years ago is even more marvelworthy-in amount of truck that can be bought for $1,000, in adaptation to the problems of modern distribution of goods. Compared to a pleasure car the modern truck is intrinsically as beautiful, engineeringly more luxurious, commercially more important. For those who appreciate such qualities Chicago last week had its annual thrill - the truck show, or rather two of them...