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Word: philadelphia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third concert the audience caught fire. Women crowded to the stage to shower him with bouquets. The box office grossed $3,000. When it was over, Paderewski found himself the lion of Manhattan. His success was repeated in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia. His first U. S. tour netted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Veteran | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

When money-making little Graham Creighton Patterson quit as publisher of the Christian Herald in 1935 to take over Philadelphia's moribund Farm Journal, a Herald colleague said: "Goodby, Graham. If you become as good a farmer as you were a Christian, God pity the farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: God Pity the Farmers | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...square inches of white paper Blake could and did put forms comparable in grandeur to the frescoes of Michelangelo. Few if any exhibitions this season had more artistic interest than a comprehensive show of Blake which opened last week at the Philadelphia Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mr. Blake | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...meeting of the venerable, rich American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia last week, grey, gentle Astronomer Henry Norris Russell of Princeton (see p. 58) explained what he considers the most reasonable modern theory on this question. The theory was worked out mathematically by Dr. Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell, a brilliant analyst of atomic behavior. Dr. Bethe sat down to figure out what atomic reactions would occur often enough to be important in the sun's energy economy, yet not so often as to use up the supply of some important ingredient in a hurry. He found that, at temperatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Stuff | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...repute as an atomic theorist like a snowball rolling downhill. It is hard to pick up a physics journal nowadays in which he has not some new light to shed on old problems, or in which other physicists do not find occasion to cite his work. Dr. Russell in Philadelphia last week left no doubt that this new work on the sun is a highly valued contribution-from an astrophysical point of view, very hot stuff indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Stuff | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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