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...while, but after a further series of reactions in which three more hydrogen atoms would be used up, the carbon would reappear, ready to be used again. Thus carbon, though not depleted itself, is the agent that annihilates hydrogen, creates energy. A use less end-product, or "ash," is helium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Stuff | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...these were not jittery times, we might safely ignore windbags of the Coughlin or Heflin ilk, who have a tendency to explode of their own inflammable gaseous content -or are discarded by a weary public to the obscurity ash heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Carol by the paterfamilias, a parade of family & guests to his bedside early Christmas morning to open stockings. Presents ranged from the soap and toothbrush traditionally stuffed in Franklin Roosevelt's stocking, to paperweights with the Presidential seal for all the office staff (to match paper cutters and ash trays he gave them in other years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Presents | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Thomas Stearns Eliot '10, who has since become widely known as an author for his play "Murder in the Cathedral" and such poems as "The Waste Land", "Ash Wednesday", and "Gerontion", was an editor of the Advocate while in College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Prints Symposium on Works Of T.S. Eliot, Poet and Former Editor | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...first time in palace history an American girl was allowed to "swing it" with the musicians. The swingstress was 20-year-old Evelyn Dall, a lissome ash-blonde from New York's Bronx. A onetime hoofer in Billy Rose's Manhattan Music Hall. Miss Dall went abroad in 1933, was leading lady with the Monte Carlo Follies for a season, then joined the London swing band. London cafe-goers know her as ''Ambrose's Bronx Bombshell." Miss Dall, whose real name is Evelyn Mildred Fuss, took her stage name from that of President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuss Swings | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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