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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributions (notably a peasant tragedy by the late, great Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, a passage about a prostitute-waif from The Black Book by the English Writer Lawrence Durrell) that seemed creative indeed, many more that seemed fashionably frantic in technique as in content. A section on "American design" was atrociously badly designed. Question: does editorship of such a publication demand merely a generous ear, or also an exacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...apparatus is similar in principle to other cyclotrons now in construction or operation throughout the world all of which are based on the fundamental design developed by Professor Ernest O. Lawrence of the University of California, recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces Completion of Atom Smasher, Useful in Research | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...Powys brothers (the others, Theodore Francis and John Cowper), descendant of William Cowper and John Donne; of tuberculosis; in Davos Platz, Switzerland. Ill off and on for 30 years, Lewellyn Powys underscored in his writings (best known: Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God) a hedonistic design for living : "We should grow less involved in society and more deeply involved in existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Another possibility envisaged by Mr. Baker is that the new design may prove useful for aerial and landscape photography, discounting its greater awkwardness by its faster lens and sharper definition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Student Invents Device Simplifying the Schmidt Sky Camera | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...design eliminates the necessity for curving the photographic plate by introducing another mirror, a convex spherical mirror onto which the light is reflected immediately before going to the plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Student Invents Device Simplifying the Schmidt Sky Camera | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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