Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S timeliness occurs too often to be mere happenstance. Last fortnight Thomas G. Thompson, Director of the Oceanographic Laboratories of the University of Washington at Seattle and Friday Harbor, wrote me that Matthew Fontaine Maury and Williard Gibbs were two of the world's most unappreciated geniuses. I had never heard more of Gibbs than his name, and was casting about in my mind to know how to get the best slant on him in the least time and with the most efficient method. Lo and behold: TIME'S Gibbs article [TIME, Feb. 20], for which...
...expected at the familiar Berghof, the Führer's well-known mountain chalet near Berchtesgaden. Not far from the Berghof, however, the driver took a different road, the car began to ascend a highway winding five miles up a steep mountain. Soon the highway became a mere shelf on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the road ended before two big bronze doors built in the mountainside...
...uncertain. It is time for the intelligentsia to realize its responsibilities. Civilization must be left to its own devices no longer. It is up to Phi Beta Kappa men to recognize their Key as the wise man's burden, which is altogether too ponderous to dangle from a mere watchchain, and altogether too potent to have no other...
...technique. Instead of paying his stars a salary, he persuaded them to work on a profit-sharing basis, had Fields write his own story and let matters take their course. The result was that the shooting of You Can't Cheat an Honest Man-completed for a mere $400,000-amounted practically to a miniature Hollywood revolution...
Born in London in 1757, William Blake impressed his parents at the age of four by seeing God's head in the window. No mere precocity, this faculty of imaginative vision remained his extraordinary endowment throughout life. Before he was 20 he learned the craft of engraving and wrote his Poetical Sketches, the purest lyric poetry of the century. At 24 he married a girl who could neither read nor write. Blake might have had worldly advancement but it scared him. In 1795, when someone got him the offer of a post as Tutor in Drawing to the Royal...