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Word: law (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will celebrate its soth anniversary. President Albert Lebrun of France will attend the ceremonies, and a thousand scientists from all over the world will meet to honor Pasteur and the work of the Institute. All will recall Pasteur's speech at the opening of the institute. "Two opposing laws seem to me now in contest," he said. "The one, a law of blood and death . . . the other, a law of peace, work and health. . . . Which of these two laws will prevail, God only knows." These words seem very fresh to Institute scientists, for they had planned their celebration last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pasteur's Pride | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Major, 26, office manager, his daughter, Virginia Ann, 16, director of young people's activities. Operating expenses of the Tabernacle and radio programs, which bring in 4,000 letters a week, come to $100,000 a year. The Church's motto is: "No creed but Christ, no law but love, no Book but the Bible." No donations are refused. The Cadle 1,485-voice choir is something to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cash & Cadle | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...discovery of several radioactive elements. Some years ago he lectured at Cornell, is remembered there as an "outstanding scientist"-also as a good lecturer, an amiable and energetic man. Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom cracked. Some credit also went to Nobel Laureate Irene Curie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Game | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...paper. The Call-Bulletin and Oakland's Post-Enquirer earn far less, but stand to get a boost from the fair this year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, once the weak sister of the Coast, has been pulling out of the red under Roosevelt Son-in-Law John Boettiger, will make enough in 1939 to offset 1938's losses. These papers will probably survive as a string long after Hearst is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dusk at Santa Monica | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...sister-in-law runs errands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Show Business: Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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