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A new value for the brightness of the sun in comparison with the other stars has been detirmined at the Oak Ridge Station by Dr. Calder, who attains a relatively high precision by the use of the electrical methods of measuring light. He finds, for instance, that the sun in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAPLEY TALKS ABOUT WORK OF OBSERVATORY | 2/10/1937 | See Source »

"I am not foolish enough to try to place myself in a class, for example, with Ravel and Sibelius, whom I admire tremendously," says Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe ("Ferde Grofe"), "but there is a real place for my kind of music. Some time, when I get older-I am 44...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grofe's America | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Moving with all the precision that will be required to end the General Motors strike, minions of the Maintenance division quietly removed the door from University A, lock, offending slot, and all, and took it to their laboratories for study.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foiled Theft Brings Prompt Action; Foolproof Mail Box Finally Installed | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Something has been heard of this undertaking, but now for the first time in New England it can really be seen. Wood sculpture, in figure-heads and signs, textiles, the Shaker crafts of furniture, are presented with a precision of tery and some seventeenth century furniture, are presented with a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

While thousands of earnest young Catholic, Jewish and Protestant theological students were at their books last week, looking forward to a quietly devotional commencement time next spring, in Los Angeles 200 ministers-to-be were graduated with Christendom's dizziest rites from a seminary called the Lighthouse of International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sisters v. Satan | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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