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...Lucien Brouha's attempts to determine the ability of the average person to perform hard muscular work have been so successful that he has developed a test which has already been given to 2200 students here and to 2800 Yale students and which shows promise of seeing still wider application in the near future...
...clean the air in the average six-room home." Savings on cleaning and replacements are substantial; savings on health cannot be figured although the Precipitron catches pollen and bacteria. Not even tobacco smoke, which has the finest particles found in the air (16,000 side by side are no wider than a pinhead), escapes its electrical filter...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt, apparently postponing plans for a cabinet shakeup, has tentatively decided to attack the manpowere problem by retaining Paul V. McNutt as War Manpower Chief and granting him wider powers over the nation's human resources, well-informed officials said tonight...
...future of creative composing could hardly have been more doubtful or insecure, than in the late thirties. The gulf between composer and listener had grown steadily wider. Under the barrage of clever and unappealing work that the atonalists, impressionists, neo-classicists, etc. turned out, the critics became evasive and began to accept each new work with equal tolerance and an equal lack of enthusiasm. That isn't to say that competent, entertaining music wasn't turned out in the twenties or thirties, but rather that the composers were mainly experimentalists, interested in playing with effects...
...expect to be relieved after perhaps a year. (A Naval officer noticed three of his tough marines playing marbles one day. Another was flapping his arms, playing airplane. The marines were beginning to crack after 18 long months of close confinement. By now they have been shipped to wider lands with kinder lights...