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...with delegates from eight Moslem countries, exultant that Arab rebels now rule large areas of Palestine, met in Cairo, demanded that Britain repudiate the famed Balfour Declaration promising to establish "a national home for the Jewish people'' in Palestine, stop Jewish immigration, resign as mandatory Power-in plainer words, that Britain get out and leave the 400,000 Jews to the mercy of the 900,000 Arabs. Significant it was that the delegates journeyed to Alexandria to drink tea at Ras-El-Tin Palace with plump, ambitious, 18-year-old King Farouk I of Egypt, whose palace clique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy and Civil | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...telescopes-and is packed with matter to the very threshold of perception-. The rate of expansion has been slowing down so that the past time scale is remarkably limited. In short, the necessary adjustments and compensations suggest that the model may be a forced interpretation of the data." In plainer language, this meant that Astronomer Hubble is now willing to abandon the expanding universe to mathematical cosmologists and philosophers, pending a further development of theory, or the erection in 1940 of Caltech's 200-inch super telescope, which may finally settle the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shift on Shift | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...omnipotence of the dream and in the disinterested play of thought. . . . We who have not given ourselves to processes of filtering, who through the medium of our work have been content to be the silent receptacle of many echoes . . . are perhaps yet serving a much nobler cause." Surrealism in plainer language is an attempt to explore the subconscious mind and to evoke emotional reactions through the illogical juxtaposition of objects. The difference between the cubists and present day abstract painters on one hand, and dadaists and surrealists on the other is basic, easily grasped. Abstract painters think of their pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Marvelous & Fantastic | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...plainer boom portent has been seen than the recent upward surge in prices, Moody's commodity index having risen 20% in the past six months. Wheat at $1.25 per bu. last week was at a six-year high, cocoa at 11¼? per Ib. at a seven-year high, rubber at 19? per Ib. at a seven-year-high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: BOOM! | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

This is made plainer by the fact that while the enrollment of the University has increased over 50% since 1926, its total expenditure has increased barely 2%. There are 20% more students per teacher here than at the average, not to say the best, State university. Our professorial salary scale is pitifully far below that of the leading State and endowed universities. The cost per student here is about $212, while at the leading State universities it is frequently above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 22, 1936 | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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