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Though it is the fourth play to bombard the cinema, Wonder Boy manages to do it with new weapons. The story of the would-be dentist cajoled into brief stardom is Hollywood legend. So is Phil Mashkin's remark: "In two words, im-possible." Well acted, cleverly directed, Wonder Boy is a live & funny play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Other Plays in Manhattan | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Upshot of the surgeon-journalist conference on cancer was that the surgeons would find a writer who knows medicine or (more difficult) a doctor who knows journalism to bombard the public with cancer warnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons' College | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Vacuum Tube. While tubes with everything imaginable in them are still used in laboratory research, tubes with nothing in them are used in radio as amplifiers, in medicine as a source of X-rays, in the laboratory to photograph molecules, as guns to bombard and break down atoms. Last week new tube developments were reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Tubes | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...they gather speed, finally shoot out the end of the tube, minute bullets capable of battering the nucleus of any atom in their path, perhaps of changing it into atomic energy which scientists have long talked about. Cosmic Rays. Although some scientists have thought that the "cosmic rays" which bombard the earth might be high-speed electrons, recent investigations have indicated that they are ether waves of very high frequencies, reported Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of the executive committee of California Institute of Technology, one of the most famed of the great West Coast scientists. If they were electrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...screaming boys fell never to rise again. As many more were wounded. The Government did its best to suppress news of the riot but Bolivians had seen the bodies in the streets. The country was aroused. General Kundt posted loyal troops on the hills above the capital, threatened to bombard the city. Police were ordered to shoot any man, woman or child who appeared on the streets. Wrote United Pressman A. L. Bradford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Blood in La Paz | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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