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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instrument has been used principally to examine the abrupt changes in crystalline form which many solid substances undergo when subjected to great pressure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bridgman Makes Ice Too Hot to Hold With Pressure of Over 500 Tons to the Square Inch | 11/29/1935 | See Source »

...dental cripples." Dr. Samuel Rabkin of Cincinnati, who believes that wars and economic struggle are factors in tooth decline, showed photographs of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls proving that even those oldtimers had pyorrhea. On exhibit from Northwestern University was a ponderous Stone Age flint hammer, presumably an early instrument for curing dental hurts since it was found with a little heap of broken teeth. In making and fitting false teeth, dentists have found it harder to make lower plates stay put than uppers. Drs. Charles Shepard Tuller and Sydney C. Fournet of New Orleans disclosed a "Revolutionary mechanical principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tooth Talk | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...that since Flegenheimer's exile, other gangs had "muscled in" on his interests. While police estimate that no less than 135 lives have been lost as a direct result of Flegenheimer's outlaw enterprises, he was known to favor the conference rather than the revolver as an instrument of settling jurisdictional disputes. From his Newark hideout he had sent an emissary to Manhattan several weeks ago.This emissary had never returned, and word had gone round that he was to be found in a barrel of cement on the bottom of the Hudson River. Krompier was supposed to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Triple Zero | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...distribution in the observable sphere approaches uniformity. Dr. Hubble last week compared the population density to tennis balls 50 ft. apart. This he believes represents a dependable sample of the universe beyond the visible limits. The actual limits may never be reached except in the unlikely event that an instrument is built to see all around the curved space of Relativity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nebular Knowledge | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...Bess Meredyth and George Marion Jr., is unfailingly light-hearted and literate. Its score, though a potpourri of operatic and concert-stage favorites, is well chosen. Its cast includes Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce and Luis Alberni. Its star is Lawrence Tibbett, whose baritone voice is still the best vocal instrument the talking screen has presented to the U. S. public and who in this picture, his first in four years, is heard to better advantage than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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