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Short and stocky, he has dark features like an Indian's. This resemblance is heightened by his straight black hair, now greying on the edges, which, parted in the middle, falls heavily over each temple. His face is lined, his mouth heavy. His bright unseeing eyes look normal. His clothes are dark and rustic; he wears white wash ties...
Last fortnight the Medical Association of Vienna sat in their chambers, listened to Professor Stephan Jellinek, electropathologist, and Theodore Scheiber, electrical engineer, tell how an apparatus invented by them might make the answer yes. Their invention replaces normal acoustic hearing with electrical hearing, not dependent upon the functions of the outer or middle...
Since last fall's depression, President Hoover has tried to bolster up business with optimistic proclamations that conditions are improving, that industry will soon be back to normal (TIME, March 17). Other public men have caught the White House cue. When it was found last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that February employment had risen one-tenth of 1% over January, this headline followed...
...will mature rapidly, be suitable for paper manufacture. Aided by New York Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn. The cost of McKee poplar seedlings is about $5 per acre. In eight years the crop...
...whirls them apart; in the guerrilla warfare of peace they are blown together again, but now some are big businessmen, others are professionally criminals, pimps, dope-sellers; some are Communists; the women are shrunken harridans or plumped-up prostitutes. It is a civilization fighting the throes of corruption : normal human feelings, human values are worthless, no longer existent; the most perverted, grotesque exaggeration is the rule. Author Neumann has laid on both somber and gruesome colors with a heavy hand. Whether or not a caricature it is a big picture, horrible, nightmarish...