Search Details

Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

In present-day Soviet Russia, young mouths have a lot to say. Recently 24 students of the Timiryazeff Agriculture Academy in Moscow got hot under their proletarian collars, wrote a steaming letter to the Commissariat of Agriculture's official journal, which published the letter last week, under the headline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chase Formal Genetics! | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-84) was a quiet Moravian monk, who discovered the laws of inheritance by puttering with peas. He showed, for example, that if a "dominant" yellow pea is bred to a "recessive" green pea, all the first generation peas will be yellow, and three out of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chase Formal Genetics! | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Newest of Philadelphia's publishers, Moe Annenberg is the most feared of all. Yet in his quest for respectability he has not been unmindful of the ethics of his profession. Two months ago the Inquirer posted on its masthead the slogan: "An Independent Newspaper for All the People," and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Story | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Last week it looked to Parisians as if the Louvre staff needed a little augmentation in time of peace as well. About ten minutes of four one afternoon the guard who patrols the new French room on the second floor found himself staring at a blank space on the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Watteau Snipped | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

At the New York World's Fair, Land of Liberty plays daily at the Federal Building; at San Francisco's, in the California Building. No competition for such Fair attractions as Treasure Island's Dnude Ranch or Flushing's Sun Worshippers, Land of Liberty is worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Land of Liberty | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | 311 | 312 | 313 | 314 | 315 | 316 | 317 | 318 | 319 | 320 | 321 | 322 | 323 | 324 | 325 | 326 | 327 | Next