Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classic. DOROTHY SAMER...
Obviously this thesis has some merit, though it does not carry quite the impact of originality which its champion claims for it. Anyone's appreciation of classic or even modern literature is conditioned by his sympathy for its social origins; but Mr. Harris forgets, or underestimates, the fact that sympathy is a product of the imagination more than of factual knowledge. Apart from this, "Case for Tragedy" is marred by a false emphasis on values extraneous to art as art, and by positive mistakes in literary judgement which are the disastrous. The temptation for a modern writer to call Date...
...pieces), Japanese whippet tanks, Japanese machine gun crews, Japanese bombing planes (seven) and Japanese destroyers (two) which fired in high, wide, erratic fashion from their anchorage six miles away in the Gulf of Liaotung opposite famed Port Arthur. Considered purely as butchery, the three-day battle was a little classic...
...Baker, professor of Orthodontia, has conducted classic experiments demonstrating the tremendous effect upon the growth and form of the face and head which is brought about by extracting the teeth from one side of the jaw of a growing animal. He is also making modern application of Hunter's experiments in pregnant animals, in which the feeding of madder, a yellowish vegetables substance, indicates that future dentistry will begin before the child is born, and proves for the first time that madder fed to a pregnant mother directly effects the bones and teeth of the unborn infant...
...self-starter, he has far transcended tinkering gadgets. He is GM's visionary magician, perched on a high stool whose legs have grown longer and longer as the business has expanded, gazing into the future with the crystal ball of pure scientific theory. Forgiven and forgotten is his classic blunder of ten years ago, the air-cooled Chevrolet motor which cost GM 31 cool millions. Nowadays most improvements in cars are originated by independent inventors, developed by partsmakers. Mr. Kettering and his research staff have carried GM into rich fields beyond the automobile business. He was largely responsible...