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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among famed writers of scientifiction are Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eric Temple Bell (penname: John Taine), Abraham Merritt, editor of the American Weekly, and onetime Wisconsin State Senator Roger Sherman Hoar (penname: Ralph Milne Farley). Pay is 1? to 4? a word. Many a well-known author who commands higher rates in slick-paper magazines writes these stories for fun. But writers as well as readers take their predictions seriously. Ray Cummings, a veteran pseudo-fictioneer who once was Thomas Edison's secretary, claims to have originated in his stories the word Newscaster and the phrase The World of Tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Amazing! Astounding! | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...That Inventor Ferguson will go down in history with Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Historic Furrow | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...until seven years after Buck's death was the chapel completed, but it fulfilled his wishes in every detail. A $1,000,000 structure, it looks like a cathedral (its tower was modeled after Canterbury Cathedral's Bell Harry Tower), has 77 costly stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon. Off the transept is a memorial room in which Carrara marble figures of Washington Duke and Sons Buck and Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Duke's Design | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Diving Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Maurice Richard Grosser learned to read Homer and hunt squirrel under the tutelage of the late William Robert ("Old Sawney") Webb, white-bearded, tobacco-chewing Confederate veteran, classicist and schoolmaster in Bell Buckle, Tenn. "Old Sawney's" star pupil, Grosser entered Harvard in 1920 with the highest-in-the-U. S. college entrance marks in mathematics and Greek. Of Art he was more innocent than the youngest dauber in a modern progressive school. In 1922, when he was a restless sophomore, a leering classmate urged him to go to an art class in South Boston, because there he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Heroic Vegetables | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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