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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a competition for an art centre for Wheaton College gave some intimation of how many young U. S. architects now accept the credo of modernism. Of 252 designs submitted by 243 architects, all but a scant two dozen were modern in character, and the judges picked the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wheaton's Theatre | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Unitarianism is practically creedless. Its adherents usually believe in a single personality, God the Father, instead of a Trinitarian Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Over the objections of many Protestants and Catholics, Unitarians call themselves Christians because they believe in the divinity (but hot deity) and the teachings of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unitarian Unifier | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

According to the practice of this aid policy, awards go on the basis of outstanding ability and character, regardless of financial need. Carrying a maximum of $1,000 the first year and $1,200 each year thereafter, the stipend varies in each case, being sufficiently large, when necessary, to meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 34 GOOD MEN, EACH TO BE NATIONAL SCHOLAR | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

All this is positive liberalism. All this repudiates the old-fashioned concepts under which Williams developed. These concepts were mostly of a negative character: to present both sides of a question, to tolerate opposite viewpoints, to disdain from actual participation in contemporary struggles. Today Williams is becoming imbued with a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

Observation of the ionized layers, which extend from about 30 to 150 miles above earth--well beyond man's reach-- is possible because the electric character of these blankets is such that they reflect radio waves back to earth. It is this reflection which makes it possible to send radio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

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