Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern Englishman or American, for whom science is power, and whose ideal hence is not unrelated to that of Arabic science which was magic, since the Arabs, like us, have the application of science to the exigencies of life for our goal--in other words, power over nature. Roger Bacon, as Mr. Dawson says, "seems at first sight"--so he appeared to the Elizabethan dramatist--"to belong entirely to the Arabic scientific tradition," for since he was aware of the possible misuse of science, "like the Arabs he believed that science was power and that the scientist was a wonder...
Principal Bacon Academy...
...WITH THEIR HEADS!?Peggy Bacon?McBride ($3). Though Peggy Bacon is little known to the U. S. at large, Manhattan intelligentsiacs have for years oh-ed and ahed in front of her malicious black-&-white portraits. Like all good caricaturists, her bite is worse than her bark. This collection of 39 caricatures of prominent U. S. figures shows Artist Bacon at her best, her victims at their worst. A literate craftswoman (she versifies with skill), Artist Bacon supplements her sketches with verbal notes, sometimes as acidly to the point as the finished drawing. Some of them...
Some hope also the liberals place on Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts, the baby of the Court, who is a mere 59. He was a corporation lawyer in Pennsylvania until President Coolidge put him in charge of the criminal prosecution of the Naval Oil Scandals. He sent Albert Bacon Fall to jail for a year, and made a great public name for himself, to boot. On the Supreme Court, to which President Hoover appointed him in 1930, he has been conservative-he voted with the majority on the Oklahoma Ice case-but he has also been New Dealish, voting with...
...enthusiastic if somewhat juvenile support of Son James Roosevelt got a better office out of the New Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...