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...Professor Einstein, frantic with the imminence of death from heart trouble, has been intensely working on two new theories corollary to relativity. One he has just submitted to the Berlin Academy of Science, for study. The other is yet unfinished. Last summer he spent at Lubeck, Baltic sea resort. Last week he was in Berlin, reasoning a few hours each day in a small, secluded room atop his apartment house. His malady has made him annoyingly nervous and querulous. In his wife's words, if someone suddenly disturbs him, he screams, shrieks and raves. Then he calms down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light & Sight | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...party of Rumanian cadets had been on the local-express. They burst in the station door. One, a telegraphist, seized the Morse key, clicked frantic appeals for help. Within half an hour a wrecking train had steamed up. Meanwhile cadets worked mightily to extract wounded passengers from crumpled wooden cars, some of which had begun to burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Orient Wrecked | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Sculptor Lukeman felt inclined to sue Mr. Venable. He said he had completed one third of the central group of three horses and riders for $180,000, that he could complete the rest within six months for $75,000. With the frantic ire of the artist whos work is criticized before it is finished, he called attention to the fact that most of General Lee was still in rough outline. Replying to Mr. Venable's threatening assertion that he had turned the rights over to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sculptor Lukeman continued: " The Daughters ... are now shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vexed Venable | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...ball snaps from center, the quarterback takes it, wheels, and flips it to a halfback. The halfback draws back his arm and shoots and oval on an airline to an end far down the field. A frantic dive by the safety man, and a touchdown is averted by a scant four yards. The teams line up there is a line plunge and another, and a touchdown. The stands are rocking with excitement. Every woman is gasping "Who was that?" and every man is fumbling at his program to discover who threw the pass, who caught it, and who made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...leave, and only the evening-paper men are left. There is still the "lead" of the play-by-play story to be written. Darkness falls rapidly, and lanterns make their appearance along the counter, by whose light the typewrites click, and the pencils push faster and faster, sending to frantic sporting editors trying to catch the third edition the information that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business of Reporting Gridiron Clashes Is As Specialized As Bootlegger's Trade | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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