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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn of the Century and in the years that immediately followed, when John Singer Sargent was painting socialite portraits in the British manner, Henry James was preaching the superiority of European civilization, and Architect Stanford White felt that a copy of a Spanish Cathedral's bell tower was the proper thing for a horse show and prizefight auditorium, a few U. S. artists began discovering the American Scene. Many of them were born in Philadelphia, most of them were influenced by the earlier painting of Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins, all of them lived and worked in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New York Realists | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...closes the door, a switch located in the ceiling and connected to the door by a rod turns on the light. In some booths it starts a ventilating fan. Switches heretofore used for this purpose were mechanical ones which had moving parts to wear out and which made what Bell Telephone Laboratories considered a disagreeable noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Silent Mercury | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Described in Bell Laboratories Record last week was a booth switch in the form of a small glass tube containing a pellet of mercury, which is a good conductor of electricity. When the door is open the mercury remains at one end of the tube. Closing the door tilts it so that the mercury rolls to the other end, closing a circuit between two electrodes, lighting the light and starting the fan. This little switch makes no noise, has no moving parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Silent Mercury | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Turning the tables on their opponents, the Yardlings outplayed the Terrior pups from the opening bell of the second session. Dan Roosevelt and Vin Francis, dependable defense pair, distributed effective body checks at opportune moments while Ervin scored two goals assisted by Winslow and Eaton. Turning on the heat still more proved to be of little aid as Richardson, B.U. center, caught the defence down the ice and beat Freedley to put the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1940 SEXTET LOSES TO B.U. TEAM AT ARENA, 5-4 | 2/16/1937 | See Source »

...with which some of the Nautilus' crew pass to the surface through the emergency release hatch; the salvage air intake to which a diver, reaching a disabled craft, can attach an oxygen line, feeding air to the imprisoned crew until they can be rescued in the rescue bell-a sort of undersea elevator operated on cables from the salvage ship above. If Devil's Playground had been made several years ago, when its cast names were at the top of their box-office value and its story had seldom been used, it might have been an all-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Devil's Playground | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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