Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First important stop was at Kharkov, fine and flourishing "Industrial Capital of the Ukraine," the political capital being Kiev, "Mother of Russian Towns." In Kharkov rises the modernistic Palace of State Industry, "largest office building in Europe," the tallest sections 13 stories high. In efforts to get droning Red Bureaucrats inside to bestir themselves, the Kharkov managing staffs of a section of the latest Five-Year Plan have been satirized in Soviet films showing languid Communist typists squirting perfume over themselves and ogling their Bolshevik bosses-a deliberate exaggeration like all Communist propaganda. Last week Red bosses and Red typists...
...terms of the atomic constant e²/mc³. The figure turned out to be approximately the same as Eddington's 10 39 . The square of the universe's age would therefore be equal to Eddington's other figure, 10 78 . Armed with these two fine coincidences, Dirac next proposed to dispense with the giant numbers and simply say that the ratio of electrical to gravitational force between proton and electron equals t, the age of the universe, and the amount of universal matter equals t². But the universe is not getting any younger. Thus...
...prints and paintings at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. If the Museum staff was only vaguely familiar with sporting art, this was not to its credit. Besides the skating woodcut, there were assembled a Rembrandt etching of a tired golfer, another skating scene by Rowlandson, etchings by Goya, five fine bronzes by Degas, a Hogarth cockfight, lithographs by George Wesley Bellows. A large proportion of the other sporting pictures were of horses, hounds and hunting. More than half were British, all were of a quality far superior to typical "sporting...
...those who regard Elizabeth Bergner as the answer to a moviegoer's prayer, the revival of "Catherine the Great," at the Fine Arts will hold great appeal. Miss Bergner portrays the Empress Catherine II of Russia amid flocks of befrilled and bewigged gentlemen, vainly attempting to rule an empire while her mad husband philanders and rages...
President Conant in his annual report made considerable mention of the fine cooperation of the press in devoting generous space to last year's intellectual convention at Cambridge. An informed guide service would be an excellent method of continuing this appeal to the public. Actual contact with the inner workings of the University, its museums and its lecture halls, ought to stimulate greater interest in higher education and a deeper appreciation of its services. Next summer, as an aftermath of the Tercentenary, there will probably be an unusually large number of visitors in comparison with former normal years, and consequently...