Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with shrewd selection that keeps an eye on dramatic values. The result is a most moving account of the career of the humbly great French chemist. Paul Muni, with admirable insight and restraint, and an efficient camouflage of synthetic whiskers, gives us the determination, perseverance, and kindliness of the pioneer warrior against man's microscopic foes. Josephine Hutchinson is equally good in the role of the sympathetic, self-effacing wife...
...moment was not with the state of railroads, of telephones, of law or even of politics. As the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, it was their solemn duty to approve a plan of campaign which, when launched next week, will serve notice on the nation that its pioneer stronghold of creative scholarship is threatened not with extinction but with what is worse for the repository of a great tradition - a slow, humiliating decline into lacklustre mediocrity...
...obviously better fitted to deal with the complexities of education than a preoccupied and constantly shifting legislature. The independence that goes with private endowment has enabled this university and others of its kind to experiment in fields where the publicly-owned college would hesitate to venture. Harvard's pioneer work with such additions to the educational scheme as the House plan, the Tutorial system, and national scholarships, can best be undertaken by privately-endowed institutions...
...cells are no larger than .00015 inch long, minute dots and streaks under the best microscopes. The chromosomes in the fly's salivary glands, however, are 70 times bigger than those in the germ-plasm, and two years ago Dr. Theophilus Shickel Painter of University of Texas took pioneer photographs of these tiny giants showing cross-bands. Then Dr. Bridges made such good photomicrographs of the salivary chromosomes that the crossbands marking gene locality came even more clearly to view, and the bands themselves were seen to be dotted or segmented (TIME...
...since 1933; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. The fourth Roosevelt to serve in that position (predecessors were Theodore, Theodore Jr. and Franklin D.), he was a consistent advocate of a "Navy second to none." Died. Albert Cabell Ritchie, 59, four-time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom he had defeated in 1919; in 1935, he lost his faith in the New Deal, bitterly attacked...