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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sees no great possibilities of concluding peace now, but as long as sham war continues he claims there is still a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Says He Prefers an Unjust Peace to Long Lasting European War | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...Cepheid variable stars, whose fluctuating light beams enable measurement of great interstellar distances, may prove also to hold important new clues to forces at work within the great island universes, or galaxies like our own Milky Way, Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, recently told the National Academy of Sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLUE TO GALAXIES IS IN CEPHEID VARIABLES | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Photographs of X-ray shadowgraphs of paintings by Rembrandt, Titian, Giorgiene, and other great artists are shown in an exhibition of modern technical studies of art at the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exhibit at Fogg Shows X-rays | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...forwards, minus their star and the team's captain, Howie Mendel, are a comparative weak point. Coach Carr has indulged in a great many shifts in their personnel since the beginning of the year, but the present setup is Mendeler Art Page at left outside, Prenny Willetts at left Inside, Murphy at center, Ernie Staber at right inside, and Gordon Halstead at right outside, with Art Neff as alternate...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...been doing an inordinate amount of stalking through the American scene of late. In our time, when democratic theories are coming in for more than their share of doubt, Abraham Lincoln, hero of democracy par excellence, has become an important symbol at the expense of the man himself. Great eulogies and great debunkings have been poured over his faded memory, rearing him into some abstract, semi-divine legend. In the play, "Abo Lincoln in Illinois," two men--Robert Sherwood, playwright, and Raymond Massey, actor--have striven to bring him back to life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

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