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Sound works of fiction centred in the Southwest are few & far between. The grandeur of that country, its translucent and heady atmosphere, have had a superficializing effect on many artists and writers. Of the few serious writers able to work in New Mexico with a steady mind, Paul Horgan is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stories of New Mexico | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

On April 7 there will be an annular eclipse of the sun. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon's image, though centred against the sun's disk, is too small to cover it entirely, leaving a ring of bright light around the edge. The images of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eclipses of 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Aside from the ill omen which sailormen believe follows changing a warship's name, interest centred on the "bigger" Deutschland, which must be one of the four 35,000-ton (perhaps 40,000) battleships which Germany is feverishly putting together. Two of these ships, launched last February and April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: New Deutschland | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Guild leadership has centred in Manhattan almost from the start, and Manhattan newsmen are apt to be more Left-thinking than newsmen in other sections.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Broun's Successor | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Islands by which Russia could bottle up the Bothnian Sea, Finland revealed that it had laid mines-illegally, but without eliciting complaint from the only legally interested party, Sweden. Russian ships shelled Viipuri and moved out through the Gulf past Helsinki to attack Hangö, "The Baltic Gibraltar." Finland'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 36-to-1 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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