Word: columns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (issue of Dec. 5, p. 21), probably sensing the bias that the press blunder anent nudism and cancer might cause, sought to regain the intellectual status quo by publishing the "Health Wedding'' story together with an enlightening, timely, two-column cut. In doing so, TIME scooped all conservative magazines...
GETTING down to the more serious things in life (one must to that in a column once in a while, you know), there are four tomes that you should consider when buying something for father, or a favorite professor, and we might include also, just any ordinary man. We are talking about The Edwardian Era, by Andre Maurois (Appleton-Century, $3.00): Charles the First, by Hillaire Belloc (J. B. Lippincott, $4.00): Mary Queen of Scots, by Eric Linklater (Appleton-Century, $1.50); and An American Colossus, by Ralph Edward Bailey (Lathrop, Lee & Shepard, $3.00). In these four presentations we find...
...hangar in which was no dirigible but M. I. T.'s giant electrostatic generator (TIME, March 7, 1932). There they joined newsmen and M. I. T. engineers and miscellaneous scientists. In the gloom loomed the generator- two gleaming 15-ft. hollow aluminum balls, each atop a 25-ft. column of textolite, each column mounted on a massive four-wheel truck. The two trucks were on a single track which ran the length of the hangar and beyond. Small manholes opened into both aluminum balls which were rigged up inside as compact laboratories...
...Graaff staff member clambered up a ladder into the ball which was to serve as the positive terminal. Into the negative ball climbed another, followed by a spunky newshawk. Two more staff men went to shielded control boards at the foot of each column. Builder Van de Graaff barked instructions...
Also featured will be a critical article, "Anabasis of A. MacLeish," by H. M. Wade. There will be a new dramatic column criticizing holiday plays in New York, in addition to the usual book reviews, and the Hodge Podge strip...