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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decoration. But it is not their ugliness which would trouble the sensitive visitor. . . . [They] are out of place as the symbols of a bygone hatred. . . . They are of the stuff that is offensive to humanity and dangerous to peace . . . should be removed from the stronghold of academic freedom. They may well find a resting place, if resting place it is necessary that they have, in the memorial chapel about to be. The new chapel, it is averred, will not honor in its halls the Harvard War dead who were so unfortunate as to perish on the Teuton side. The Sargent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sargents Flayed | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Heat is energy which flows into matter. So far as anyone knows it is consistent with all substances. If atoms are knots of universal waves, as has been theorized, it may be at that transcendental moment when the knots get intricate enough to "materialize" as atoms that heat begins to show in them. Conversely, when all heat has been driven from a substance, as Professor Keesom almost did last week, it may be that "matter" will explode into those universal waves which man at present can call only "nothingness." What the violence of such an explosion might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coldest Cold | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...scarlet for Gaffney. Now they carried the story that the Cherokee Times had a scarlet serial. And next-great "scoop" for the Cherokee Times!-they carried news that Scarlet Sister Mary had won the Pulitzer Prize for 1928 as best U. S. novel of the year (TIME, May...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scarlet in South Carolina | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...wench's "immorality," is the question of whether or not conditions on South Carolina plantations are as Mrs. Peterkin paints them, and above that comes the question of whether or not such conditions should be recognized and discussed. "If you know South Carolina," chuckled the Cherokee Times, "You may surmise that the storm will be more than a zephyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scarlet in South Carolina | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Times-Dispatch, reporting the International Paper & Power Co. investigation, stated, in effect, that John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the rival Richmond News-Leader, had gone to North Carolina to buy a newspaper for I. P. & P. Publisher Bryan prepared a $500,000 libel suit against the Times-Dispatch (TIME, May 27). Last week the Times-Dispatch expressed public regrets for the statement. The Bryan suit was withdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power & the Press, Cont. | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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