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Word: journals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electrical Journal, a Westinghouse publication, last week said: "This new pump is marvelously effective. It reduces the number of gas molecules to the point where they can almost literally be counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vacuum Ecstasy | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...British journal Nature fortnight ago, Dr. Svedberg reported experiments on molecules of hemocyanin (molecular weight, 6,740,000 units), a blue pigment from the blood of mollusks. He and his co-workers at the University of Upsala bombarded the hemocyanin particles with quanta of energy in the form of ultraviolet light. Certain wave lengths of the bombarding radiation split the blood pigment molecules into halves. This was like splitting inorganic atoms in a high-voltage atom-smasher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quantized Biology? | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan's newest columnist, pert Dorothy Kilgallen, who last week took over the Journal and American's "Voice of Broadway," immediately implored producers to ring up their curtains at 9:30 p. m., on the grounds that she is "an eating girl" and, as things stand, goes to the theatre half starved. "Or else," she wound up, "send me sandwiches with my tickets." If her suggestion were adopted, critics on morning newspapers would have only 15 minutes to write their reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Show Business: Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...International Typographical Union, 320 new dailies started in the U. S., 319 were suspended. Most of the new papers were born in places like Goose Creek. Texas, Aliquippa, Pa. and Lead, S. D. The dead included such sizable city dailies as the New York American, Toledo News-Bee, Rochester Journal, St. Paul News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Papers | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Breeziest, most rambunctious, most irreverent of Broadway's daily critics is the Journal and American's tall, ruddy John Anderson. In his chili-sauce style, he has sassed Walter Winchell. greeted a stage character who took too long to die with "Here's your shroud, Mr. Quimby, what's your hurry?", described a play as having "the same relation to the drama as a dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: 300 Years: 100 Pages | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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