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Soaring over the ridge an hour and a half gave Dick du Pont an idea. Year ago his father offered $3,000 for the first motorless flight from Elmira to within 25 miles of New York's Times Square. To attempt such a distance flight now with neither map...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Wings of the Wind | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

The extent of the style has a double range: Geographically, the exhibits represent nearly every corner of the globe including the principal countries of Europe parts of Asia, and the United States from New York to California: Architecturally, the exhibits range from apartment houses to factories, low cost housing developments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARCHITECTURE EXHIBIT WILL OPEN IN ROBINSON ANNEX TO STAY MONTH | 10/10/1933 | See Source »

Professor Edgell, with the reputation of getting out more words per minute than any other member of the faculty, covers all the art between the fall of Rome and the Century of progress exhibition in one hoctic half year. Everything within the field that might serve the cultured young gentleman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINE ARTS 1d | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

With details in the production one can quarrel endlessly. It is easy to be shocked at the idea of Harvard as an intellectual Sargasso Sea in some years to come; one may point out that Dearborn, Michigan, hardly has the ingredients of a scientific oasis for the decade of mental...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

In 1955 an epidemic of maculated fever (at present peculiar to captive baboons) will kill half the world's population. Scared at last into their senses, the nations will beat swords into ploughshares, start building up civilization once again. World trade and national governments will have collapsed. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chatty Casandra | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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