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Dr. Bradley Merrill Patten, embryologist of Western Reserve University, showed a film, taken with a special microscopic lens, of the heart of an unhatched chicken. Twenty-nine hours after incubation, five days before the formation of any nerve tissue, the heart began to beat. The beat began in the portion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Heart (Cont'd) | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...fashioned stereoscope does what the living eyes do. A camera with two lenses makes two slightly different pictures. The pictures are carefully mounted side by side on a card which is placed before a pair of lenses fixed on a frame. The left lens shows only the left picture to the left eye; the right lens only the right picture to the right eye. The brain combines the pictures as solid effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stereoscopy | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

2) Another method is to make one stereoscope view through a green filter, the other through a red filter. On the screen the two pictures overlap as one confused scene when looked at with the unhelped eyes. But spectacles with one red glass or celluloid lens, and the other of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stereoscopy | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

The Significance- James Joyce, whether or not he intended to be, has been an authors' author. His cultivation of the "stream-of-consciousness" method, use of a wide-angled lens in picturing his landscapes, resulted in writing too hard for the general reader. Other authors have taken from Maestro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Ulysses-- | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

An exciting play of incident illuminated this story as it was told on the stage. The dark background of the house, squalid, heavy and forlorn, held it together and suggested that, in all other similar city houses, there might be similar stories, as there were surely similar incidents. The camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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