Word: spore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for the limited life of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, a brilliant nook run by high-brow Harvardians from 1928 to 1932, the first general awakening began four years ago. A drifting spore from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art took root in Boston as an "affiliate," was watered by about 50 members, made $1,500 on a Modern Arts Ball (now annual and famous as the only dance at which Boston society stays up until dawn). By 1937 there were 300 members. Two months ago, with 800 paying members, Boston's offshoot became a lusty...
...mighty explosion in 1883, sent out a tidal wave that drowned 36,000 inhabitants of adjacent lands. In the Krakatau group, four new islands were formed from the wreck of the former three. Naturalists agreed almost unanimously that every particle of life, down to the last seed and spore, must have been wiped out by lava, ash, gas and steam, that if life again took root on the islands it must come from outside. A minutely detailed story of vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen...
Last week Drs. Thomas James Glover of New York and Jacob Lenhert Engle of Philadelphia, after ten years' research, proposed a spore-bearing organism. They find the spore-bearing germ in human breast cancer, can grow the material like any germ, and with cultures produce secondary cancers in guinea pigs, animals notoriously difficult to render cancerous. The National Institute of Health thinks so well of Drs. Glover and Engle's work that it let their last week's announcement bear the Institute's cachet...
...luxurious Park Avenue apartment of Irving Ter Bush has for the past few years been chiefly noted as the place where his third wife. Marion Spore, painted her weird, mystically-inspired "automatic paintings" (TIME, Feb. 20). Onetime practicing dentist, later a charitarian "Angel of the Bowery," Marion Spore Bush explains that she picks up a brush, starts in one corner of a large canvas "without the slightest idea what is going to happen." In her studio for the last few weeks have gathered regularly her husband's henchmen to talk strategy for his campaign to regain control of Bush...
...showed clearly that profits had been overstated, that payments of dividends to stockholders (of which Founder Bush is the largest) had been continued long after profits and the company's financial condition justified. Not mentioned in the report but long discussed in Manhattan was crystal-gazing Marion Spore's interest in her husband's business affairs, of strange policies emanating from the Bush apartment, mysterious orders that went out to the Bush organization...