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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Few top-notch cow pokes miss the Broadway roundup. With luck one man can win $4,000 at the Garden while his wife gets the Broadway permanent she has been dying for. Some wives perform at the Garden too (almost all rodeos have women's bronc-riding contests). But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

In the last few years, loud have been the critics-both faculty and student-about the way Dr. Conant handles men. One after another, popular young teachers have been fired, from Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Save Harvard | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

At the turn of the last century, France had as anticlerical a Government as ever hated & feared the Pope. French lawmakers bundled up their prejudices in a Laic Law which, among other things, required State authorization for religious orders. When France went to war in 1914, thousands of members of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Aumoniers | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

That plants have "emotions," "heart beats," feel pain, were theories of the late Hindu Botanist Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Every gardener knows that "wounded" plants heal themselves with mysterious juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wounded Beans | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Few years ago he used to spend some of his evenings in the machine-shop in his basement, just tinkering, but lately he has had no time for that and it has been taken over by his 16-year-old son Richard. Last summer Richard built himself a one-lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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