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In Europe, crisscrossed north and south as well as east and west by sworling mountain ranges, the theatres of war are limited with almost mathematical precision. Every great plain and basin in western and central Europe has been soaked in blood, every pass and gap and gateway has been powdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Geography of Battle | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

To Wodehousebroken readers, each of their master's novels is as good as the last, perhaps even a little better. Last week's Wodehouse, both in patter & pattern, they found as engagingly inane as ever. For Uncle Fred in the Springtime has the usual bubbling dialogue, the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patterned Patter | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Those agents have been known to doctors for nearly fifty years, but have been the object of precision study for only about twenty years. It is now known that those agents cause numerous diseases, including some of the most important epidemic diseases.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symposium Will Study Virus Agents in Control of Disease | 6/9/1939 | See Source »

The paintings by Hopper are matchless in their clean and spacious solidity. "Storage Plant" embodies precision without loss of emotional content. The use of clear color together with his distinctive way of turning a relatively unimportant subject into an impressive, work of art; gives a natural force to Hopper's...

Author: By Jack Wllar, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

St. Olaf's choristers always sing unaccompanied. Their sense of pitch is so accurate that their director, squat, white-haired Dr. Frederick Melius Christiansen, never even peeps a pitch pipe to give them the key. And their singing has the precision and shading of a crack symphony orchestra. Every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At St. Olaf | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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