Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stagnant period at the end of the 19th Century, won the approval even of such tough-minded critics as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review. In The Advancing Front of Science, Gray does not confine himself to physics. It is, he says, "an attempt to report news rather than summarize history." In it readers will find such various nuggets as the heredity map in the giant chromosomes of the salivary glands of the fruit fly; the pros & cons of the expanding universe; sensitizing dyes, such as kryptocyanine, which make photographic emulsions sensitive to light far beyond the bounds...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway); Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna); Dead End (Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor); The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman, Raymond Massey, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); Shanghai bombing newsreels-Universal, March of Time, News...
...occasions this season by winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby with Phideas. Jockey Donoghue's new job will not be training Sir Victor's horses, as was expected, but writing racing news for an Australian syndicate...
Having knocked off more than a year's gain in last fortnight's triple tumble, the stockmarket last week had a rebound. Since business news was neither good nor bad, the advance was ascribed to "technical reasons"-Wall Street's way of saying that everything which goes down must come up. But the market did not go up far, did not stay up long. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after soaring above 2,000,000 shares thrice in a month, fell back into its recent rut. By the peak of the rally, the Dow-Jones...