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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which particles were treated as "singularities" in the field. Dr. Silberstein carried this out for a two-particle problem, found that, though all stress between the particles disappeared, they remained stationary. Since either Newtonian or Einsteinian gravity would require them to fall together, this seemed to be a reductio ad absurdum. The New York tabloid Daily News headlines: SILBER TOPS EIN WHEN STEIN MEETS STEIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Open for Repairs | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

Professor Janko Lavrin of University College, Nottingham, provides an informative introduction, though he makes no effort "ad captandum vulgus" by mentioning what is likely to win the vast majority of readers: Solovyev's criticism of "Hamlet", in which is demonstrated (as indispensable to the tragic venture of the play) the capital importance of Hamlet's belief in blood-vengeance, despite his Christian faith, and of his "general incapacity to put into execution any law." This is a most ingenious criticism of Shakespere, and it will serve to remind one that Russians have been unorthodox critics from the beginning -- a fact...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 2/4/1936 | See Source »

Canco appealed to a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Among arguments ad- vanced before this tribunal was the claim that publication of sales figures would give competitors a clue to Canco's profit margins, thus precipitating price wars which would ruin little can companies. Last week, sitting in Philadelphia, Judge Joseph Whitaker Thompson granted Canco's plea for a temporary injunction against SEC pending further arguments, this time on the constitutionality of the Securities Exchange Act. Only other pending challenge of the 1934 Act was filed recently by Pittsburgh's Mesta Machine, builder of steelmaking machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Canco Case | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

With a thorough appreciation of the subtleties of modern advertising, may I respectfully inquire what the Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s advertisement in your issue of Oct. 21 is all about? . . . Why not caption the ad., "What's wrong with this picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...mittens. An extended rabbit may be that long but that gesture would never describe any sort of an American game bird. Nope, that gentleman is obviously describing a fish and in doing so is committing an advertising sin - he is diverting attention from the theme of the ad - autumnal hunting. . . . Personally, I'm going to stick to plain gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

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