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Sir Arthur's dictum last week became Professor Franz Boas' rhetorical opportunity. Professor Boas is also a great anthropologist, and 1932 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The A. A. A. S. last week was at Pasadena, holding its first summer meeting. Ordinarily at the regular...
Granddaughter of the late Senator H., daughter of Congressman William B., niece of incumbent Senator John H., Tallulah Bankhead inherited from her family a pungent rhetorical wit and an inclination to have people listen to her. After a short period of training at various convents, she went on the stage...
Mr. Stimson's speech dwelt, of course. primarily upon economics.* His first concern was to relieve President Hoover of the political responsibility for the business depression. Persuasively by rhetorical questions and answers he argued that the slump was worldwide, that its causes antedated the Hoover Administration, that the U. S...
Whether or not Dr. Einstein has that accomplished as a laboratory feat, he accompanied his introduction of Solid Space with a rhetorical flourish which will doubtless confuse students for years to come. Meaning merely that Space had at last come into its own as the ultimate reality, he exclaimed: "Space...
The effects of mighty tragedy, of the inscrutably deep character of the chancellor, all are obtained without the use of clumsy mass-action: no wielder of rhetorical thunders. Meyer concentrates, impresses with fine delineation rather than overwhelms with sheer quantity and force. His is the method of the finished artist...