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...Berlin, Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener's widow commissioned her brother-in-law, Professor Kurt Wegener, meteorologist, who at once prepared to go to Greenland to take command of the expedition. She told him to leave her husband's body at rest in its frigid tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Pair of Skis | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...Unconscious Lawrence's best book), he praises as well as blames him as a man, says Lawrence should not be judged but loved. "Much better 'art' has been produced by Lawrence's contemporaries; books better shaped, novels more objectively conceived, poems more concentrated. Beside Lawrence's work they seem frigid and futile. It is simply that they are not commensurate with our deep needs of today. Our modern art is all obviously, irremediably minor. And it must necessarily be minor, so long as its aim is to be art. There is. and always will be, a place for minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exhumer | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...York to satisfy their theatrical appetites or else stay at home in Boston, repelled from the theatre by stupid and unnecessarily stringent censorship. It is useless to blame the producers or the dramatist if the city insists upon emasculating nearly every play that ventures into this frigid atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL SILENT | 3/19/1931 | See Source »

...Greenwich Village girl art student into court, accused her of living with a man. By Judge Norris' order and without recourse, the artist was lodged in a home for wayward girls within two hours of her arrest. Throughout the recital of her alleged irregularities Magistrate Norris preserved a frigid calm, gave as good as she received. But yeast proved her undoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Murder on Mosholu | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...staff of managers and volunteers made the frigid work-out possible, by speeding up the action of the weather in freeing the Newell dock of a large ice pack. A small boat, rocked on the ice, broke through, and the pack was shoved and floated away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS MAKE MILE AND A HALF RUN ON RIVER | 3/3/1931 | See Source »

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