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Higher institutions of learning might probably consider an extension into the realm of maternity. When "Bacchanalian Arts 1a, 1b, 1d," grace dull course indexes, Universities may find a way to fill the cup of learning. "Fat rats, thin rats, scrawny rats" will throng after the elusive flute. "Heaviside Calculus" and "Molecular Forces" possess a soporific charm all their own, but who can foretell the rush of "black rats, white rats, and brown rats," to worship at the feet of a seer who could outline the indefinable incompatibility of champagne and muligataway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PIED PIPER | 12/10/1932 | See Source »

Spain's second largest colony is her extremely fertile Guinea, a realm roughly as large as Maryland on Africa's West Coast. Last week 140,000 Guineans (mostly black) were appalled by doings at a dance on the Island of Annobon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Best Governor & Sergeant | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...difficult to see why this series, the modern counterpart of the great religious frescoes of the Renaissance, has caused such an upheaval in the Impressionist schools. The realm of art was as much disturbed by the trial of the fishmonger and the poor shoemaker as the political situation of the decade...

Author: By H. B., | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/18/1932 | See Source »

...even the most belligerent Mexican politician knows, the Pope's spiritual realm is vast, his temporal holdings (108.7 acres) minute. Obviously Acerba animi, referred to spiritual things, counselling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Third Exile | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Morally straight as a sceptre, physically supple and strong as a beast of prey is the mightiest man in the Middle East, King Ibn Saud. Last week he changed the name of his realm which has been "The Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd and Its Dependencies." Renaming this huge desert hodgepodge partly after himself, tall, frowning Ibn Saud christened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND OF SAUD: Kingdom Christened | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

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