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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dragged his readers through depravity, jingoism, and sex murder, that he was the first to campaign for good roads, woman's suffrage, that through his mother he established the Parent-Teachers' Association, and that in the horse-&-buggy days this was yellow journalism. Today, it is accepted progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week the metallurgical journal Metal Progress commented on the researches of Professor Daniel Hanson of England's University of Birmingham, who had divided creep into four stages. These are elastic stretch (like rubber); plastic flow (like mud); slower plastic flow; approach to fracture. Professor Hanson's theory of fracture is that the metal atoms, under continuing mechanical stress plus their own agitation due to heat, are moved one by one to new positions so that the whole structure is weakened. When enough atoms are thus individually moved, the metal breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Creep | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Seniors and graduate students will be able to take a course in "The History of the Book" next year, according to an authoritative announcement from Widener Library yesterday. The new course marks the latest stepping-stone in the rapid progress of the recently created Department of Printing and Graphic Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Plans New Course About History of the Book | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

...hardly a surprise to students of American foreign policy that a statement condemning German "acts of wanton lawlessness" should have been forthcoming from the United States State Department. Healthy progress away from isolation and toward a constructive program of cooperation has been the theme of all Secretary Hull has done. But closer scrutiny of the high-sounding diplomatic terms in which the statement was couched; comparison with the method used in the now-famous frontier-on-the-Rhine statement; and understanding of the international temper--only temporarily one of apathetic resignation--into which it was injected, all point to Sumner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE | 3/18/1939 | See Source »

...programs will be recorded, although certain specific presentations will be heard over WIXAL. This is the group's avowed intent--to combine the theoretical with the practical. By coordinating the newer theories of auditory perception with actual practice, the Workshop may well take the helm in radio's future progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOP TALK | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

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