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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Humble for this ignorance, dentists pointed with pride to a new method of spotting the first speck of decay. Offered by Dr. James M. Prime of Omaha, this procedure is to paint the teeth with ammoniacal silver nitrate which gives "instant warning" by darkening rotting enamel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dentists | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Although parts of the heads and the base have disappeared through decay, its quality remains and ranks high among the known examples of its type, such as those in the Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 5/14/1937 | See Source »

...climate, landscape and cowboys, Author Priestley less resembles a coyote than an oldtime prophet. The prophet's rhapsodies change to a jeremiad when he tackles U. S. women, Manhattan, Hollywood, the stricken man-made landscape between, the profligate waste of natural resources, the "chilly dank hell" of moral decay rising from U. S. indifference to its gangsters, its rich men and their political ineptitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Priestley in Wonderland | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...year 1914 sounded the historic signal for basic change from the old bankrupt imperialist order to the new world socialist order." The year 1936 threatens the world with a repetition of 1914's imperialist war, but a repetition fundamentally conditioned by the further decay of capitalism and the rise of exploited classes and peoples. These are the principle theses about which R. Palme Dutt builds his striking review of the post...

Author: By Rupert Emerson., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/5/1937 | See Source »

Under able leadership the Harvard Film Society is proving itself to be a very valuable institution in the University. The undergraduates who have formed the society are bringing moving picture films to Cambridge that until recently had been stored in musty vaults, where disintegration and decay were rapidly destroying many of the first and finest bits of film history. By bringing these films to Harvard they are presenting an interesting survey of the development of motion pictures in America, and at the same time are contributing to the upkeep of the old favorites of the early nineteen hundreds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESURRECTED FILMS | 12/10/1936 | See Source »

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