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...dreams and in researches he made among theological, philosophical and mystical works, Dr. Jung found the quaternity symbol everywhere. The square, the circle, the mystic squared circle suggest four; the Buddhist mandala-symbol is usually a circular lotus containing a square building with four gates; there are four seasons, four points of the compass, four Evangelists, etc. In the patient's dream of the "world clock" appeared "four little men," just as people in groups of four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Symbols & Religion | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

They used it for discarded cigaret butts while they were occupied in writing the first TIME stories and drafting a circular with which they obtained the original subscribers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: ANNIVERSARY | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...level, were made possible by a distribution of stresses through concrete reinforced by welded steel mesh. The huge main room is lit not by windows but by a wide horizontal rift of glass tubing at the angle of walls and ceiling and by skylights. It is ventilated through two circular ducts or "nostrils" rising through the building. Radiators have been eliminated by a heating system under the floor slabs. Clients. The history of the Johnson Building illustrates perfectly one of the traits in Frank Lloyd Wright which lesser architects have played against him for all it is worth. The architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Usonian Architect | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

According to a circular sent out by George C. Cutler '14, the Lionel deJersey Harvard scholarship was so named because he was a collateral descendent of the University's founder, because he was the first of the name in nearly 300 years to be enrolled as a student here, and because "he died gallantly in action, as an acting captain of the Grenadier Guards, at Arras on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campaign Started to Raise Funds for Permanent Endowment of Studentships | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...furiously propagandizing Rivera school. After eight years in Mexico he went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated, inventive, winning, to many a critic, Chariot's pictures of Mexican laborers and tortilla makers (see cut) were a welcome contrast to the present work of his old friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mexicans & Friends | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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