Word: newe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor Frank Cobb of the old New York World tells what Woodrow Wilson told him the night before Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany: would mean that we should lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong . . . that a majority of people in this hemisphere would go war-mad, quit thinking, and devote their energies to destruction...
Discovery of a new type of underground earthquake wave, vitally affecting seismological theories and problems of building reinforcement, was reported today by Dr. L. Don Leet, Director of the University Seismograph Stations...
...difficult for anyone having even a vague knowledge of Epstein's work to deny his excellence as a sculptor. Such creations as DAY and NIGHT, GENESIS and ORIOL, ROSS show a new and invigorating vision completely free from academic stodginess. In many respects Epstein occupies the same relative position in his medium of expression, that of stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others...
...critical standards are, at best, superimposed rationalizations of instinctive judgements. Any attempt to erect a standard of morality in art is nothing more than a class-room stunt. It is the old story of individual taste which has and will remain unchanged. But there is one new standard of critical truth which must not be overlooked, no matter how greatly individual tastes may vary: art is beginning to have political and social implications; it is becoming closely intertwined with the earth upon which we walk and the lives which we lead. Consequently, since art is in the process of adopting...
Disclosed by a series of observations of artificial earthquakes set off by dynamite explosions, the new wave-form is the fifth fundamental type known to science. The four previously known forms have been recognized for forty years. Dr. Leet said his new wave was not predicted in earthquake theory...