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"Oklahoma is a queer, wild state . . . a place where they arrest people on account of the books in their libraries, where a 'nigger's got to know his place' . . . where the Ku Klux Klan still ranges in their primordial shirttails through the cow pastures and where cro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: The Unsilenced | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Most obvious door to the central mysteries of life is protoplasm, the basic stuff of living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Pulse of Protoplasm | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Prime mover of Chicago's Charter Jubilee Art Show is flag-waving Chauncey McCormick, longtime vice president of Chicago's Art Institute, art impresario of the Century of Progress Exposition, grandnephew of the primordial Cyrus Hall McCormick. Chauncey McCormick who made his maiden political speech (''Save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charter Show | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Not all scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradox flourishes in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star-clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Not all scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradoxes flourish in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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