Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hemingway praises these stories for "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness." ALLI'S SON-Magnhild Haalke-Knopf ($2.50). Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset...
...loan. It was bribery of this sort that set Central Europe on stable feet after the World War. Isolationist sentiment ties the hands of the United States, the logical country to offer itself as arbiter between the sides and as manager of the League loan. The award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936 to the Foreign Minister of the Argentine directs attention to the part South America is starting to play on the world stage. Of the countries large enough to intervene Brazil is the best choice, particularly in view of its cultural affinity to Spain. Whatever statesmen...
Mathematical physicists use the same three tools commonly employed by novelists and amateur race track bettors: pencil, paper and imagination. One who wields these tools brilliantly is Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac of Cambridge University, who won a Nobel Prize in 1933 for his powerful contributions to atomic theory and who is one of the half-dozen greatest mathematical logicians in the world. In the U. S. last week arrived the British journal Nature with an article by Dr. Dirac which he began as follows...
...mind, not of emotions as politics requires. He quit in disgust after one term in the U. S. Senate (1909-15). Devoting himself to the role of Elder Statesman, he became a member of The Hague Court, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, won the Nobel Peace Prize, was called by the League of Nations to help draft the plans of the World Court...
...COLLECTED POEMS & PLAYS OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE-Macmillan ($3). Eight moralistic, literary plays, many a psalm and meditative rhapsody, some of which will be recognized as poetry by sympathetic Western readers; by India's aged (75) Hindu Nobel Prizeman...