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First off, the physical therapists felt obliged to explain their specialty to a world that was ready to call them quacks. London's Dr. Franz Nagelschmidt, who fostered physical therapy in 1912 with his Textbook of Diathermy and who recently discovered a therapeutic electric current which reduces fatty tissue without dieting or drugging, volunteered to explain one aspect. Said he last week in Kansas City...
...suspense is contributed by the jewel thieves' attempts to retrieve their swag. Its charm resides in the fact that George Brent can wrinkle his nose whereas Kay Francis cannot pronounce "r." Good shot: a bedazzled police chief (Spencer Charters) trying to make the company at the lodge explain what they...
...contraction of cooling, but this is no longer regarded as the sole cause of unrest. A half-century ago. Dr. Watts recalled, Suess of Austria realized from geological evidence that the sea had washed back & forth on the continents in great longtime pulses, but he could not explain the underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored there until the sub-crust melts. The continental masses sink deeper into this dense, viscous pool, which...
...mighty flight of fancy Dr. Carrel does not pause to explain to men of lesser minds just how, as a practical political matter, these titanic reforms are to be brought about. Nor does he adduce any historic arguments to prove that doctors make great governors of men, perhaps because such arguments are difficult to find. U. S. experience with doctors in high office (e. g. New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland and Representative William Irving Sirovich) Dr. Carrel apparently realized would not help him make his point...
Criminologists, prison wardens, managers of insane asylums and keepers of houses of correction from 50 countries arrived expectantly last week in Berlin. On Sept. 1 a new Nazi-made penal code becomes effective throughout Germany (TIME, July 8). Eager to explain it, Nazis were lavish hosts last week to the eleventh International Penal & Penitentiary Conference...