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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although a course in Navigation began yesterday in Hunt Hall, all men interested in the course, which will be taught by Associate Professor Leonard Opdycke, are invited to attend the lectures even though they missed the initial talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navigation | 8/24/1943 | See Source »

After two months of military government President Pedro Ramirez and his Cabinet of generals and admirals last week met and solemnly decided what Argentina needed most: a good Red Hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Red Hunt | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...students of Nobel Prize Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech, the Lindegrens had long crossbred fruit flies, which breed a new generation every three weeks. Yeast can produce a new generation in as little as 20 minutes. Yeast cells, usually having no sex, reproduce simply by splitting in two. Under certain conditions yeast develops sexual characteristics and, like other plants, reproduces by means of spores. The Lindegrens cultivated yeast with spores, opened the spore sacs and cross-fertilized them, in this way bred thousands of new varieties of yeast. Finally, they got some to the king's taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Last Roundup? | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...could have knocked Frank Hague over with a split ballot. In his 26 years as Mayor of Jersey City, he had done more than his bit to establish himself as the U. S.'s prime suppressor of civil liberties. His hired thugs made an almost ceremonial fox hunt out of chasing labor organizers and, especially, Communists out of town. Now the Communists swore they loved him. The U. S. press laughed itself silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hold That Line! | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Phonograph antiquarians, who hunt for sacred if scratchy records out of the dear dead past, had a wonderful prize offered them last week. It was a 1912 disc of the late great Lillian Russell, singing the hit of her career, Come Down, My Evenin' Star. Copies were issued by Manhattan's Collectors Record Shop. The recording showed its age. The sound of the little string orchestra that accompanied Lillian had the antique flavor of the wormholes in a Gutenberg Bible or the patina on a Hellenistic bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lillian on Wax | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

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