Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This attitude toward great scientists is of comparatively recent birth. Hitherto the study of scientists has been directed primarily toward the facts of their discoveries, Mr. Crowther pointed out, and it has not touched upon why such a discovery was made in one place and at one time rather than at any other time and place, or what effect such a discovery had on current thought...
...lead Methodists toward a better social order, "a Christian way" between Fascism and Communism. At this concept Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, perhaps the world's greatest Methodist and the leader of the National Preaching Mission last autumn (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). has been hammering away in recent speeches up & down the land. Last week to the aid of Dr. Jones and the Fellowship went one of the nation's most pious and eminent non-Methodists, John D. Rockefeller Jr., who spoke to Methodists in Fellowship assembled on a nation-wide radio hookup...
Said London's Brandeis, Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd. in their annual Metal Report: "It is generally acknowledged that the rise of copper in recent months was largely brought about by purchases, speculative and otherwise, in anticipation of a greatly increased demand for military purposes...
...whereas the price for years has been between $16 and $18 per ton. The sulphur companies argue that high taxes put them at a disadvantage in competition with foreign producers. Said a Texas Gulf man in Austin last week: "We have lost half our world trade in recent years." How much of this loss was directly traceable to a rigid price structure of their own making the U. S. sulphur producers have never volunteered...
...render something called Our Song in a forest whose birds stop twittering to listen. At her husband's country lodge, complying with the new convention whereby Metropolitan Opera stars show cinema patrons how jolly and unpretentious they really are by breaking into jazz, Miss Moore rivals the recent efforts of Lily Pons and Gladys Swarthout by moaning an expurgated version of "Minnie the Moocher" while attired in a flannel shirt and trousers. This is the comic climax of the picture. It is followed by the formal climax in which, at a song festival in which she is appearing...