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Author Russell, who has always held aloof from the political arena, takes a longer, more objective view of the argument than either Secretary Wallace or Mr. Hoover. A radical, he is also a scientist and a philosopher. To get a proper perspective of the debate between freedom and organization, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yes, No, Perhaps | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

The Victorian Age was a great believer in literary volcanoes. It preferred them extinct, but from the semi-active ones it got delightful tremors. To Victorians, Elinor Glyn might have seemed a volcano in full blast, but plain readers today will find it hard to believe that she was ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Success in Skirts | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

Two days before the ultimatum expired a shattering blast wrecked the important power station of Opponitz in Lower Austria, stopped every streetcar in Vienna for an hour until another power station could be hooked up to serve the capital. Minor bombs were popping all over Austria. To the railway station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Family to Safety | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

This is a reductio ad absurdum not only for common sense but for the theory of Relativity. Timidly at first but more boldly of late, some astronomers have suggested other possible causes for the redshift, viz. cosmic dust scattered through space or a slowing of light's velocity after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cosmology | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

The fall of Jericho took place in 1400 B.C. In 1927 A.D. a stocky, bustling, bemonocled Englishman set a party of diggers to work on the site. He was Sir Charles Marston, 66, Justice of Peace, officer in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, fellow of the Society of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Antiquarian on Jericho | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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