Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's show, New York carried off most of the honors, this time with a soft-textured nude by George Grosz, a characteristic frozen-faced, deep green Landscape with Fisherman by Doris Lee, Isaac Soyer's indulgent School Girls and Robert Philipp's Dust to Dust, which won honorable mention at the Carnegie International last autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced...
Protesting, but obedient, Youngster Davis divested himself. Standing in his shirtsleeves, he admitted that his robe, tattered and full of holes, had been borrowed from another judge a generation ago. Then Judge Buffington helped him into a fine new robe, sent by dressy old Judge Isaac Meekins of Elizabeth City...
...work in the study of viruses Dr. Wendell M. Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has been awarded the Isaac Adler Prize for 1938 by the President and Fellows of the College...
...lonely and meditative man himself, he regarded Beethoven as the greatest of all musicians, Newton as the greatest of all scientists. His life of Beethoven is one of his best-known books. A few days before he died last August in Surrey, England, of disseminated sclerosis, he completed his Isaac Newton. Last week this book was published...
...Isaac Newton, a prematurely born, posthumous son of a "wild, extravagant and weak" father, showed some aptitude for science in boyhood, went to Cambridge as a "poor scholar." In his twenties he made three of the greatest discoveries in human history: the Law of Gravitation, the system of mathematics called calculus, and the fact that white light is a composite of colored light. But he did not publish his Principia until two decades later, and then only at the urging of Halley, the comet man. After finishing the Principia, Newton almost lost his mind, but recovered and retained his faculties...