Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifeless eyes. In six weeks, however, she learned to play with dolls and children, gained 20 Ib. In court the child heard but did not pay much attention to her parents' defense: that Edith "was given to certain vicious practices," that she had to be kept away from neighborhood children, that her stepmother was not "mentally responsible...
Under Mr. Gibson, who promptly succeeded Nathan S. Jonas as chairman of Manufacturers, the bank undertook the liquidation of many closed "neighborhood banks'' and thereby added to its goodwill and number of depositors (TIME, Sept. 21). From Jan. 3 to Nov. 28 its deposits rose...
...Professor Albert Einstein's relativity theory to thermodynamics, worked out a mathematical model of the universe in which energy does not flow continually downward, but expands and contracts in cycles, never reaching a state of equilibrium. Therefore he concluded that though the universe may be expanding in the neighborhood of the earthstars moving outward in space, radio-active elements breaking down into less energetic forms-this process may be reversed in remoter regions, stars may be moving back toward the centre of the universe, even radiation may be turned upside down...
...monument: a house overlooking Princeton University campus and Carnegie Lake. Professor Smith lived in the house with his family during the 15 years (1915-29) he was director of the Rockefeller Institute's department of animal pathology. He has retired now and remains in the neighborhood only as consultant. The Rockefeller Institute providently remodeled the house for use of its entire animal pathology staff and last week's dinner signified the transformation of home to monument. The building was dedicated as Theobald Smith House...
...marital infelicity and philandering was ruled out. Divorce stories, when subjects of court record, were ordered reported without frills. No reason for the change was announced, but Newshawks heard that Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson made the decision, after witnessing the film of Five Star Final, in the belief that neighborhood movie-goers would accept the atrocities committed by the tabloid in the play as typical tabloid practice. Last week the News took another step away from ordinary tabloid practice. Apparently as an experiment, it copied the style of TIME'S picture captions on three of its pages. Samples...