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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such governmental business ventures as the TVA, such regulatory bodies as the SEC (TIME, Feb. 4). The government department and Law School devised special programs. What was needed, however, was a separate graduate school. Last week Harvard got one. The public-spirited donor, found after 30 years of search, was Lucius Nathan Littauer...
...those elements even in our day which still cast a shadow over the precepts of brave love, freedom, tolerance, honest kindness and the simple search for truth find further hinderance by this another commemoration of the season which gave the Man and his philosophy birth. And as the wish for the Christmas season leaves our lips may it have less of that idiomatic insincerity which the materialism of our age so easily breeds; and ring real for a truly "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
...first search among New York City psychiatrists brought forth no suitable candidate. A second search among New York State psychiatrists likewise failed. After a third search throughout the nation, authorities found a man who graded 85% in their tests. Last week Dr. Karl Murdock Bowman of Boston was appointed manager of New York's madmen.* Born in Kansas 47 years ago, educated in California, Dr. Bowman is a leader in the effort to cure insanity by means of hormones. In the sort of institutional politics which confront him in Manhattan he has had exceptional practice. In Boston where ambitious...
Nowhere in or out of the Bible is there to be found a better description of the Cup of the Last Supper. For a thousand years that drinking vessel has been the object of pious search, the subject of revered romance, throughout the Christian world. Quietly on view in the Brooklyn Museum last week went a great egg-shaped goblet which hundreds of devout folk believe to be the Holy Grail itself. Though in all historical accuracy it probably is no such thing, it is certainly one of the oldest pieces of Christian art extant...
...hear is overrun by savages but in my dream it was most fair. And I sat in a room A in a building which looked like a storage house but which was called Emerson. And it was exactly at noon. And there I did sit as a Vagabond in search of truth; and did hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country. And, as I recall, I did delight very much to hear so much about my century; for I agree with the professor...