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...their humble stations, too enlightened to accept the prevailing beliefs of their class, too adroit not to squeeze through the crevices that appeared when the social structure began splitting apart. But Beaumarchais' life had one distinction which was lacking in the careers of such blackmailers as D'Eon, Cagliostro or Morande. Like them he employed forgery and imposture when it seemed convenient, dabbled in high finance, grafted, was guilty of staggering treacheries. Unlike them, he possessed a streak of integrity, was capable of writing artful and honest plays that expressed the dominant social conflicts of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back-Door Dramatist | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...Millikan fighting for his cosmic ray theory (see above). Dr. Richard Chace Tolman presenting a reasonable picture of a pulsating universe. It is true, reasoned Dr. Tolman, that the stars are blazing into heat & light, that as far as we can see the universe is expanding, and some eon may become dull chaos, as the Cambridge physicists reason. But, if we use Einsteinian concepts, we realize that heat & light are ponderable, that the heat & light of an airplane in flight differ subtly from the heat & light of a household furnace, that gravity may entrain the heat & light emitted by blazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. at Atlantic City | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...SALE: N eon electric crucifix, with case, in good condition; $35 takes it; 150 dozen pall bearers gloves. . . . One new prayer rail with case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Lost: 142,000 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Pasadena a fortnight ago so that Sir James could see at first hand the "red shift" (lengthening rays of light) which Dr. Hubble has observed through the Mount Wilson telescopes. Sir James has calculated that the Universe is expanding at a tremendous rate and in some far future eon will disintegrate. The lengthening of stellar rays seems to prove his thesis, which is the opposite of Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Visitor | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...week goes by but Soviet War Lord Léeon Trotsky belches forth damnation upon the world or thrills great Moscow audiences with his prophecies of the past, present and future greatness of Sovietland in general and the Red Army and Navy in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moscow Oratory | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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