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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pea to Pennsylvania | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Such were the findings which Monk Mendel communicated to the Brünn Society for the Study of Natural Science. None of his hearers seemed much interested and none asked questions. For 35 years the paper lay buried in the society's transactions. There is no evidence that Charles Darwin ever heard of Gregor Johann Mendel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pea to Pennsylvania | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...feet, 168 pounds, he has played both prof baseball and football, and can be a greater pmenace than one would think when he br frequently. Ted was born in Deming, New but he is a graduate of Stuyvesant high school Columbia University in New York. In high sch was a slim but alert center on the eleven, and an all city rating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 Words a Minute | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

...dozen byways, involves a dozen innocents, reaches a peaceful ending only, when greed has completed its own destruction. Great credit for the current Wagner vogue is due Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the mighty-voiced Norwegian who last winter won an overnight success as Isolde, went on to prove herself as Brünnhilde, the Ring's long-suffering heroine (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante}. This year Soprano Flagstad is again the Metropolitan's prime drawing-card. As Brunnhilde, she will sing in Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Many a Ring ticket was sold on her account. But wholehearted Wagnerians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ring's Boom | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...Toscanini's conducting a halt had to be called in rehearsal for the other singers to regain their repose. Critics still hold up the Fremstad Kundry as a model for that scraggly, wild-haired creature of the woods, who turns seductress for the second act. As the Walkure Brünnhilde she wore short, bushy hair, a cloak the color of the clouds, fairly flew about the stage. At a Götterdäm-merung performance she fell down a flight of steps backstage and broke her ankle. After it was tightly bound she went on singing Br...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Memories of a Diva | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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