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Prison Without Bars (United Artists-Alexander Korda). For reasons which are growing increasingly mysterious, French cinema producers seem to have become obsessed with the problem of female institutions. Model for all such pictures was, of course, the German Maedchen in Uniform, but in this the theme, more or less intrinsic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Walking encyclopedias who spout names and dates and other people's theories are plodding along today in the field of social sciences according to Professor Mather in a recent interview on concentration and distribution. Natural sciences not social sciences teach the student methods of thought and analysis and give him...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCIENCE AND THE CITIZEN | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

TIME'S Index competes with none of these standard indexes but seeks rather to appraise the factors underlying the business activity they record. This is done by analyzing the weekly Federal Reserve Board banking figures just as an accountant would analyze a corporation statement. Prime clues to a corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: ANNOUNCEMENT | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

For 100 years the indigent aged who live in New York City's municipal poor houses on Staten and Welfare Islands, have been issued standard raiment. In a century it has grown almost as quaint as the outfits of Beefeaters in London's Tower. For men it consists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: New Raiment | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Studies of the vastness of the universe and the invisible smallness of the atom are remote from the things of everyday life. Scientists also go far from familiar things in the study of low temperatures. Hydrogen liquefies at 252.7° below zero Centigrade and helium liquefies at - 268.9°. Compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cryogenics | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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