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GREAT CIRCLE-Conrad Aiken-Scrib- ner ($2). Though Author Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pathetick Passion | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

Discussing briefly the crowded action and rapidity of change of the past 25 years, covering the existence of the Business School, Dr. Hopkins called attention to the lack of foresight in the present-day hurried world and the antipathy to repose and contemplation on the part of youth today.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hopkins, Donham Speak at 25th Anniversary of Business School | 4/11/1933 | See Source »

Among lawyers puisne is pronounced "puny" and means Associate. Last week Puisne Judge Lyman Poore Duff became the Canadian equivalent of Charles Evans Hughes, through his elevation to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, succeeding Rt. Hon. Francis Alexander Anglin, brother of Actress Margaret Anglin, who died recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Elevation | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Run, Little Chillun! (by Hall Johnson; Robert Rockmore, producer). Jim, son and assistant preacher to Pastor Jones of Hope Baptist Church (colored), is drawn from his good wife Ella by the flashing eyes of Sulamai, a loose-hipped young woman from Toomer's Bottom, across the tracks. With Sulamai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 13, 1933 | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

High-spiring family tradition closed out all but a few directions for Henry Adams' ambitious nose. By ancestral precept and example a public career was indicated. But no Adams was a vote-beseecher: politics was closed. No Adams kept shop: business was out. As his father's secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Educatee | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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