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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third portrait is that of an Old Scotchman, seated at ease by his books. Raeburn has put personal character in every line, using strong lights and deep shadows and marked features. Detail work is avoided, except in the treatment of the head and of the books. Brushwork is done in the same manner, in crisp, bold planes. The result is a wise and kindly gentleman, painted with elegance and charm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...expedition aims to make maps of this region, which is described as one of the few which still is unknown. Most of the work can be done by aerial photographs, but it is necessary to survey triangulation points from the ground and take panorama photographs with a special 120 degree opening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expedition Leaves for Alaska To Take Aerial Photographs | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

Last week at the American Chemical Society's convention in Dallas, Dr. Abraham White. 30-year-old professor of physiological chemistry at Yale University, announced that he had done the trick: extracted prolactin in the form of chemically pure crystals. His first physiological tests of the crystalline hormone seemed to show that it was simply a milk-secreting stimulus. He got no growth response of the abdominal organs, no increase of blood sugar. Other tests for the Riddle reactions were in progress when he made his report. In Cold Spring Harbor last week, Dr. Riddle said he had received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prolactin | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have me." Frankie couldn't believe it. "You're just wanting to get up onto me to cut me," she exclaimed. But she was wrong; he was done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Errata | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Freedom of the press notwithstanding, almost everything said and done at the annual Washington convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors is off the record. Farthest off the record is the informal "interview" with the President. But last week, when the nation's editors left the White House, their uncommon exhilaration revealed something of what had been said inside. The President had doffed the good humor which he invariably shows to the editors' reporters. What was to have been an interview became a lecture with the editors on the receiving end. The President told his callers that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Recorders Off The Record | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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