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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aimee McPherson tried, years ago, to start a church here, but she was told to flit! The GREAT I AM did not originate here either, nor did the $30 every Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...science has barely made a start at representing biological processes in terms of exact mathematics. Statistical mathematics is extensively used in "some fields of life-science-for example, in genetics, for charting the occurrence of hereditary variations-and a great many biological processes have been reduced to chemical equations. But chemical equations are essentially descriptive. They assert that certain substances combine or dissociate to form other substances, but skim over the fundamental physical processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quantized Biology? | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...confidence in the U. S. Army and Navy underlying The Ramparts We Watch. With no military caste, U. S. officers get a more thorough training, says Major Eliot, than the officers of militaristic nations. Their power watchfully curbed by a democracy that has been afraid of militarism from the start, they nevertheless have a long tradition of loyalty to democratic government-"and they will be loyal," says Major Eliot. One of the most heartening books to appear in a season filled with disheartening ones. The Ramparts We Watch discusses war without sword rattling, remains genuinely patriotic without a hint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Democratic War | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Everybody knows that Washington Street is Broadway's guinea pig, thus it is superfluous to say that Dwight Wiman's "Great Lady" ran twenty-seven minutes overtime last night, that the first two numbers get the show off to a very slow start, that in several of the chorus numbers the singing is off cue and inaudible, or, that the show "has the makings of" this or that...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

Publisher Roy McDonald of the Chattanooga Free Press does not like TVA nor any other Government power project. He considers them a head start toward State socialism and "the complete destruction of the profit incentive that has made America great." This message the Free Press has repeated with loud and monotonous regularity ever since it was started as a throwaway weekly to advertise Mr. McDonald's chain of Home Stores (groceries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free Press & Power | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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