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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold of a wrong translation," but Pravda stuck grimly to contending that Finland's Foreign Minister had shown "exactly the same attitude as that of former Foreign Minister Beck of Poland. He [Beck] too made provocative speeches before the war between Poland and Germany and-as a result of this-provoked the war with Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bitter Pills | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...advantage, according to Dr. Hardy, which enables them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of clothes on.* Result of these superior adaptations both to heat and to cold is that the temperature range of the "comfort zone" is twice as wide for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Woman and Heat | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Like most children, little Dahlov Zorach scribbled pictures when she was three years old. Unlike most children, she was a sculptor's daughter. Fond Father William Zorach began saving all her work he could lay his hands on, kept on saving it. Result: A unique exhibition last week (at the Young People's Gallery in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) which showed 19 years of an artist's growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dahlov | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Maxwell Anderson's Broadway success, Elizabeth the Queen, had scripters tack on a new beginning. Knowing she acts nothing so well as a neurotic tantrum, they cast Bette Davis as the Queen, pulchritudinous Errol Flynn as Essex. Director Michael Curtiz was retained to pile on the pageantry. The result is a sumptuously Technicolored spectacle with some lyrically lovely scenes (hawk-flying), some eerie ones (Irish bogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...presses each year roll some 500 books, innumerable pamphlets and magazine articles on how to bring up children. Press, pulpit and radio also have their say. Result of this ominous babel of contradictory advice is to make many a conscientious modern parent a potential nervous wreck. This week one kindly authority raised a tut-tut. "Parents," said she, "relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parents, Relax! | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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