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...Last week she announced Nos. 60, 61 and 62. the rare elements iridium (fountain pen points), osmium and thulium, found by Drs. Walter Albertson of M.I.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sky Men | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...Sitting quietly at his maple desk, the Vagabond's thoughts wander into devious channels, and his pen following his mind as a child imitates its seniors--traces an incongruous line of thought, erratic but mild. Today he loiters before the haberdasheries of Harvard Square, gazing in vain at windows filled with things he wished his friends had given him for Christmas and wishing in vain be could return most of the things they did give him. Friends pass by. Some with tanned faces that bespeak of southern holidaying. A lucky few with ruddy faces who had found snow in which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/6/1937 | See Source »

...many times going over bound copies of Harper's recording (by drawings)the Civil War. It is still a valuable record. With the modern and Eastman (ad for Rochester) film you can excel that record. May you do so. The film is mightier than the pen. WILLIAM H. GORSLINE Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...almost unnecessary to repeat the world's praises. His "Principal Mathematica" and "Process and Reality", among other works of contemporary literature that have come from his pen, have made a place for him beside Plato and Aristotle in the hall of philosophical fame. His attack of bifurcation, his "eternal entities", his consumation of a union between science and philosophy--to mention briefly but a few of his mental activities--will always be remembered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OF GREAT THINGS AND ONE MAN | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...incensed that he postponed a scheduled trip to Japan. In London, news of the Japanese provocation at Keelung was kept secret long after the facts were known at the British Admiralty, and not a single Japanese newsorgan carried so much as a line on the Keelung ordeal by pen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ordeal by Pen | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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