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...holes and grooves in the mirror's back not only diminish the total weight but provide a hold for the steel grips which will keep the mirror in place in the telescope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Glass Goes West | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...England Dr. Edward Arnold Carmichael of London conducted volumetric experiments which convinced him that when a person hears a loud, sudden noise his arms and legs shrink in size. Reason: noise, like cold, pain, fright or excitement, releases nerve impulses which contract the capillaries, diminish their blood content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Cash & Collections. Hardly was the museum established than the immediate need for it seemed to diminish. Mrs. Whitney established her Museum of American Art. Stodgy Director Edward Robinson of the Metropolitan died, to be succeeded by the more liberal Herbert E. Winlock. Still the Museum of Modern Art grew and prospered, gained much prestige and more publicity with its loan exhibitions of almost everything from Henri Matisse to modern kitchen utensils. But it still owned no important pictures. In 1931 Miss Bliss died, leaving the bulk of the pictures she had been buying since the Armory Show to the Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 53rd Street Patron | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...other words the Union is merely to increase goodness and fairness and freedom, and to diminish evil and injustices and "reaction." Any man who does not support this ideal sort of organization is obviously a naughty, unsocial, unprincipled, Reactionnary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAUTIFUL AND INEFFECTUAL ANGEL | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University has announced that it will increase or diminish (I have forgotten which) the size of its diplomas. All true friends of education will applaud this great forward step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Midway Man | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

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