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The Laboratory of Anthropology, about which Santa Fe's fiesta-attending Indians gossiped, has just been formally opened. It is the world's only institution of its kind. Its purpose: to answer man's ever lasting curiosity about how he came to live as he does. In...
"In my opinion the word 'conductor' used in the English language for the leader of an orchestra is ridiculous. It ought to disappear from the vocabulary. The Italians speak of direttore, the Germans say diligent, which has the same root. The French say chef d'orchestre, which...
Prime tenet of Sir Oswald's small but diligent New Party is opposition to the Labor Government's handling of the unemployment situation. Almost as soon as he found a seat he made a barking speech against Scot MacDonald's bill for amending the unemployment insurance laws...
James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York's glib little Mayor, returned last week from his California vacation, during which the City Affairs Committee had requested Governor Roosevelt to remove him from office (TIME, March 23). Ostentatiously the Mayor got to work. The newspapers carried pictures of him wearing horn-rimmed...
Like most great men Einstein is humble. Says he: "Working is thinking, hence it is not always easy to give an exact accounting of one's time. Usually I work about four to six hours a day. I am not a very diligent man."