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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Anderson is often concerned with deeply serious ideas, and has had the guts to take the hard way in the theatre, is beyond dispute. But the sound playwright who long ago wrote What Price Glory? and Saturday's Children has gradually given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Further, the four distinct plots of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, which clog it plenty as a play, virtually wreck it as a musical. Helena, Hermia & Co. prove just as ghastly bores running loose in the wooded outskirts of New Orleans as in the Athenian groves. Nor are some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

The question has often been raised whether the social sciences are sciences at all. Certainly they occupy a place on the fringe of the physical and biological sciences, from which they must draw much of their nourishment. "Sociology," a term coined about a century ago by the French Philosopher Auguste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Since the first World War, determined efforts have been made by several U. S. universities-notably Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Minnesota, Stanford -to put social investigation on a scientific basis. In 1929 the University of Chicago dedicated a new building, financed mainly by the Rockefeller Foundation and designed to house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

"The County Society," said the Progressives' manifesto, "should study without prejudice all reasonable proposals made for the solution of the problem of medical care [and] . . . encourage well-planned experimentation in this field."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Liberal and Inquiring | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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