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...most sinewy of contemporary scores, by a onetime German Kulturbolschewik now living in the U.S. This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Grünewald, describes three sections of Matthias' great Isenheim Altarpiece: Angelic Concert, Entomb ment, Temptation of St. Anthony. Glow ingly played and recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...enzyme which lights up fireflies, and also lights up the bacteria which often make ponds and seawater phosphorescent. Working with flaskfuls of luminous bacteria, the researchers found that alcohol and anesthetics, when added in small amounts to the bacterial solutions, dimmed their luminescence. Greater amounts extinguished the glow altogether. (Conclusions: narcotics numb consciousness by affecting enzyme reactions, not-as hitherto suspected-by acting as fat solvents; human consciousness, which these drugs affect, is at least partly a chemical process sustained by enzymes.) The sulfa drugs acted like one group of narcotics on the enzyme, putting activities to sleep. (Conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evolution by Cooperation | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...would have seen the billboards shining brightly on the roads leading into San Francisco. He would have seen the lights of Alcatraz, gleaming like an ocean liner on the black waters of the Bay. Over the downtown streets he would have seen the soft, red glow of neon signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: First Jitters | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Night falls. Here & there in the distance Very lights go up, trucks still burn, flaming oil dumps set up a glow. The escarpment gradually goes silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: What War Looks Like | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...glow instead with carotene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Autumn's Chemistry | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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