Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers, but it scared Hungarians at home. Although the last election gave Hungarian Nazis 50 new seats in Parliament, they have not had an easy time; their leader, Ferenz Szalasi, the "Hungarian Henlein," is serving a three-year prison term; aristocratic, 71-year-old Admiral Horthy has so little use for Nazis (although he visited Führer Hitler in 1938) that their opponents insist Hungary can become a Nazi state only over his dead body. Last December the aged hero got so mad at Nazi hecklers at a Budapest opera that he left his box, climbed upstairs to theirs...
...allies in the East. Once war begins, they will be practically cut off from sending aid to Poland, which aims to fight a delaying war, retreating bloodily to Warsaw and the Vistula. If they are also cut off from Turkey, Rumania and Greece, they will not be able to use any of their strength to squeeze Germany between pincers...
...such a system, except for recording companies and some finely trained audience ears, is still problematical, but sure losers would be: 1) networks which would have little reason for existing; and 2) American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which collects some $6,000,000 annually from the networks for the use of 202,000 miles of wire hookups...
...colleagues to "wash their hands several minutes longer in order to economize on [dispense with] valuable rubber gloves." Other warlike economies suggested by Dr. Faber: 1) substitution of cloth gloves for rubber except in major operations; 2) laundering of bloody bandages and compresses which are ordinarily thrown away; 3) use of small-sized towels in operating on children...
...integral part of child life," as inevitable and necessary as the smoking-room stories with which politicians and even professors give "meaning and significance to otherwise unwieldy subjects." She suggests that parents and teachers recognize the educational value of children's folk literature, that writers for children use it as a model. Says she, sagely: "[Children's] humor involves a laugh at the simpleton. But perhaps children love the simpleton better than the wise...