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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish Earth (Contemporary Historians, Inc.). Last winter Writers John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish and Ernest Hemingway (see p. 66) decided that one way they might intelligently serve the Spanish Leftists was by producing a film showing the Leftists' version of the origin and progress of the revolution. Finding that little of the source material available in the U. S. could adequately supply them with the dramatic and pictorial qualities they had in mind, Messrs. Dos Passos and MacLeish formed Contemporary Historians, Inc., decided to send their own experts to Spain. There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway...
...read these words without admiration of the sentiments expressed but with understanding of their origin in the misery of four years of carnage. May our children's children feel that our passionate errors of today are equally to be excused...
Edwin G. Boring, professor of psychology, retiring president of the chapter, spoke briefly on the purposes and aims of the Society. Louis G. Graton, professor of mining geology, presented the annual address on the subject, "Controversies Regarding the Origin of Ores...
Whatever the spark's origin, the fire probably meant the end of hydrogen in passenger airships, though the Germans have lost few ships from that cause. The Hindenburg was LZ129. Of her 128 German predecessors, ten never left the drawing board, 25 were lost by storm and accident, six by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked by the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender, two are left-the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst and the sturdy old Graf, which arrived the day after the tragedy in Frankfort from...
...stark purpose of the Mellon Institute has been, since its origin in 1911, the hiring out of skilled chemists, physicists and engineers to industrialists who want to learn how 1) to cheapen their manufacturing costs, 2) to improve the attractiveness of their goods in quality, appearance or price, 3) to utilize waste products, 4) to invent new things...