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...very beginning the course should not be taken by those who have no background in philosophy or science nor any inclination to do intensive and highly abstract thinking on their own part. The reading consists largely of the lecturer's own works and some by men like Santayana, James, Hume, and Mill. The lectures require a great deal of concentration and assume a background in philosophic and scientific thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 12/12/1934 | See Source »

...fits perfectly into the background of Rebecca door-ways and flying cupids. His amorous advisees are suitably unsubtle. Pamela Ostrer is distinctively beautiful in her part as Suss's daughter, but Cedric Hardwick is somewhat disappointing as the rabbi Gabriel. The only other character of importance is Benita Hume, who plays the levitous and licentious Duchess...

Author: By E. E., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...York City: Hume Dow '38, of Staten Island, N. Y.; Theodore P. Roble '38, of New York City; Russell J. Stern '38, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Glbson Winter '38, of Flushing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CLUBS GIVE 38 AWARDS FOR THIS YEAR | 10/25/1934 | See Source »

Synthetic Rubber. E. I. du Pont de Nemours &. Co. decided the time was propitious to announce that its synthetic rubber was good enough for all, and cheap enough for some, industrial uses. Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers, research chemist, appeared for the company and said: "Starting with vinylacetylene, a compound made available through the discoveries of Dr. J[ulius] A[rthur] Nieuwland of Notre Dame University, du Pont chemists have synthesized a large number of new compounds closely related to isoprene. At least two of them, chloroprene and bromo-prene, are enormously superior to any other materials as starting points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists in Chicago | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...affairs of Gabriel Service (Lewis Stone), shows him to be, like most department store owners in the cinema, dignified, harassed and nepotistical. When his children seem bored with his business and times grow harsh, he decides to sell out to a chain store operator. Then his young wife (Benita Hume) leaves him, his children vouch for their interest in the store and he meets old Benton eating his lunch in a little graveyard back of Service's employes' entrance. Benton points out that the motto on one of the tombstones-"Be Not Afraid"- may be even better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

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