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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further, by the implication of omission, the article gives the impression that Mrs. McCormick and I made no attempt to save our guests, while our chauffeur, Jackson, called the fire department, took full charge of all rescue work, and was the first to discover that the Duke de La Tremoille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1934 | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Search for Beauty (Paramount) is a benign sexual romp, publicized as an apostrophe to beauty, male as well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Last week U. S. chemists and physicists girded up their loins for war on their British colleagues. A U. S. discoverer's right to name his own discovery had been challenged from abroad. Scientific relations between the two countries were described as "very tense." Professor Harold Clayton Urey* of Columbia University has baptized the isotope of heavy hydrogen he discovered two years ago deuterium (Greek deuteros, second). He wants deuteron or deuton to be the name of its atomic nucleus. Discussing the matter last December before the Royal Society, Lord Rutherford, head of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deuterium v. Diplogen | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

At Greenville (pop. 1,000), 22 mi. south of Kokadjo, Nurse Eleanor Hamilton got word from another trapper in mid-November that Allen's hand was mighty bad. Snow had not yet shut Kokadjo in for the winter. Nurse Hamilton found the lean, grey trapper still up & around, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tularemia | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

There is rarely a student who does not leave an examination knowing that he has made several errors, but being ignorant of what those errors might be. There is, moreover, only one way by which the students may discover their errors and profit by them without taking the trouble of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BLUE BOOKS | 2/15/1934 | See Source »

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