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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Sloan never exhibited a painting until he was 29, never sold one until he was 49. At 68, grey-haired but still impetuous, Artist Sloan now & then manages to sell "some of the etchings and a few paintings made 20 years ago."*Though his fame is surpassed by few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unbuttoned Painter | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

A bustling yet other-worldly order are the Roman Catholic Little Sisters of the Poor. Familiar sights in many a U. S. city are the sisters, with their black habits, white starched caps tied under the chin. For sweet charity, to care for the aged poor who are their charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Little Sisters | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Every now & then some pseudo-scientific jack-in-the-box pops up with an alleged death ray. Nearest approach to a real death ray is the 19-million-volt stream of subatomic particles produced at the University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Low on Horror | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, in his speech at Danzig last week (see p. 20), uttered a dark hint that Germany possesses a secret and unique weapon. This threat stirred Professor Archibald M. Low, A.C.G.I., M.I.A.E., F.C.S., F.I.P.I., F.R.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., D.Sc., Ph.D., F. Inst. Arb. to retaliate. Professor Low is a British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Low on Horror | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

For some years Harvard University's anthropological Cassandra, Professor Earnest Albert Hooton, has incessantly trumpeted that mankind is on the biological skids, that man had better find out what to do about it and then do it before it is too late. That was his message in Apes, Men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Raucous Crying | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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