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Word: furthers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garner theory according to Mr. Krock was that the cattle-i.e., American people -had plenty of grass but that the "stock is being chivied around" so much by "the Administration's cowboys" that it has grown not only thin but nervous. Concluded Mr. Krock: "Having had this pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pitching in a Pinch | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

"I love the President myself, and almost all the members of the Democratic party love the President, but this issue is above party, it is above any individual. I am appealing now for the interests of my party. If this bill is not recommitted for further study, it will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Yataghans at 15 Blocks | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Megalopolis is Author Mumford's word for the 20th Century city. In its analysis he uses the Mendelian classification of biological traits into dominants and recessives, adds two other categories: survivals and mutations. In Rome the Christian Church was a mutation, in the medieval city a dominant, in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Form of Forms | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

A worker on pi is Dr. Horace Scudder Uhler of Yale. He is not extending the decimal value of pi itself any further, but he labors on the values of derivatives, such as the square of pi, the logarithm of pi, the fraction one over pi. In Washington last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pi | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Prime piece of apparatus is a vertical, hollow cylinder, five feet high and four feet in diameter. On the inside wall of the cylinder are alternating black & white stripes, running vertically from top to bottom. These stripes can be adjusted in width from a maximum of five inches down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animal Vision | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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