Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least 30 years the name of Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has made news in London and enraged conservative Britons (TIME, March 25, 1935 et ante). Last week after nearly two years of comparative obscurity, the head fell off one of his earliest statues and slapped Sculptor Epstein right into the headlines again...
Roared Dr. Morris Fishbein of Chicago, editor of A.M.A. publications and spokesman for medical orthodoxy: "The tradition of medicine since the earliest times has been one of service-a service dependent for its success in the curing of disease on mutual responsibility between the doctor and his patient. The American Medical Association has established principles which must govern this relationship between doctor and patient. The purpose of these principles is to maintain for the public the highest possible quality of medical service. As long as human beings are themselves not standardized it will not be possible to provide them with...
...eminent and painstaking scholar, Maurois' history will present very little that is new in the interpretation of Britain's past. To the uninitiated or the casual student, the book will provide a well rounded, clearly thought out study of "England from the earliest times to the accession of George VI--the drama of a small barbaric island's rise to mastery over a third of the globe...
...painting from Mtoko Cave in Southern Rhodesia. Covering a complete wall the Mtoko cave mural is a comprehensive prehistoric art collection in itself. Almost invisible, all the way across the top reach two hazy white elephants. Drawn in profile with only two feet, they are among man's earliest attempts at graphic representation, doubtless done early in the Aurignacian period. But the Mtoko mural is richest in its examples of later (Solutrean, Magdalenian, Mesolithic, Neolithic) art work, whose humans are always drawn in the frontal, wedge-trunk position (as in Egyptian art), whose women are handily identified by little...
...these really the people who made the revolution? No; they are the people who profit by it. ... Remember that this moulding of the spirit begins in earliest infancy. . . . What is important here is to persuade people that they are as well off as they can be until a better time comes; to persuade them that elsewhere people are worse off. The only way of achieving this is carefully to prevent any communication with the outside world...