Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian critics to call the British show the finest in the history of the biennial. C. In Paris, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's Three Centuries of American Art, most extensive U. S. show ever held in Europe (TIME, May 23), drew bigger crowds than any recent Paris exhibition, attentive critical scrutiny of some 200 paintings, 80 prints, 250 movie stills. Gallic critics spoke warmly but vaguely of the show's passionate interest, weaseled on criticism of individual artists, noted that in architecture the U. S. genius was best expressed...
Since 1923, when it made its debut in Salzburg, the society has held its annual egg rolling in nearly every important country in Europe, and composers from more than 20 nations have flocked to them like hens to feeding time. Most recent of them have taken place in Prague...
...latter view is taken by the editors of Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin (chemical news and scientific miscellany), who discussed the British dew ponds in last week's issue and gave an explanation of the heat economy which makes them possible. "Recent research," said the Bulletin, "has shown that water is nearly perfect as a 'black body' or a body that easily gives off heat by radiation." The pond must keep cool so that dew will condense in it, and so that it will not lose much water by evaporation. If it is insulated...
...Refused, then offered new hope of, aid to the stricken railroads. Congress adjourned without passing any railroad emergency legislation, but the Interstate Commerce Commission agreed to reconsider its recent 6-to-5 decision against allowing a basic coach-passenger fare-increase from 2? to 2½? a mile. ICC also approved a reorganization plan of Spokane International Railway and Coeur d'Alene & Pend d'Oreille Railway calling for the merger of the two. Total trackage of these two roads is 161 miles, but the event was a milestone: the first ICC approval of a Class I reorganization since...
...Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin wall of an artery which is about to burst, stitch the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal size bore. Last week's was the most recent of many honors for Dr. Matas...