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One of the lesser mysteries of the world of finance is why, just because an individual has managed to acquire shares in a corporation, he should be expected to understand the argot of accountancy. Yet last fortnight, undoubtedly to the great perplexity of its 7,138 stockholders, Johns-Manville Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Simplicity for Employes | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

While Freshmen are searching for a field of concentration, many will be influenced in their choice by the fact that English concentrators must have passed C.P.3 in Latin or Greek or the equivalent in order to go out for honors. The intention of the Department is apparently to encourage high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASSIC REQUIREMENTS IN ENGLISH | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Since Franklin Roosevelt is easily the world's most newsworthy personage and since the questioners are presumably the world's ablest newsgatherers, it is obviously impossible to believe that such a meeting could actually occur without producing anything more printable than a conference of kerosene tank politicians in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: On Relief | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

D'Herelle prematurely decided that he had a cure for all bacterial diseases, and phage became a sensation. (The young doctor in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith was a phage researcher.) More than 50 different phages were found, and some of them were photographed by ultraviolet light in ultra-microscopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Phage Findings | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Few changes have been made in the Grimm story. The dwarfs have been developed until each has a character of his own-that of Dopey so unexpectedly heart-winning that Disney may use the mute, youngest dwarf in a series of his own. Wood creatures have been animated with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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