Word: worked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once free, feel now like slaves. But being determined, they are philosophical. In cinemas, when the face of the Führer who is theirs not by choice appears, they sing a cheerful song they learned from an American film: "Hi-ho! hi-ho! It's off to work...
...Potter is currently absorbed with the study of extrasensory perception (telepathy, clairvoyance, prophecy), believes it possible to identify this phenomenon with Humanism. It has been Dr. Potter's custom to brighten his services by such devices as using rosebuds to baptize babies. He has made his Humanists work at their rather insubstantial faith by devoting themselves to self-improvement (through art, music, etc.) and to human improvement, through cooperation with "progressive" organizations. Hence Dr. Potter chose, from among 20-odd causes recommended to Humanists, the six rosebuds represented at last week's meeting...
...This is the classic picture of the dread angina pectoris (heart attack). Rapidly on the increase, angina pectoris (usually connected with diseases of the heart's arteries) claims over 10,000 victims in the U. S. every year, mostly middle-aged professional men (doctors are especially vulnerable) who work, eat, smoke, drink too hard...
...Galton laboratory, established by famed Geneticist Sir Francis Galton, marched bearded, burly Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher with two women assistants. When guards stopped the assistants, Professor Fisher used his fists, succeeded in storming his own laboratory. There he patched up his party's wounds, went grimly to work...
...same, the authors agreed on many points, e.g.: that the best way to understand the U. S. is to study its regions (such as the Tennessee Valley), that pupils should study causes of World War I, how the British Empire was built, how dictatorships rose, how to make democracy work in the U. S., how to analyze propaganda...