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Berggrav's militant Christianity has brought about a resurgence of religious fervor not only in Norway but throughout Scandinavia. Last week Dr. Gustav Aulen, Sweden's Bishop of Strängnäs (near Stockholm) paid a public tribute to his brother imprisoned in the Oslo cottage: "Berggrav's spirit has gone free through closed doors and has witnessed that God's words bear no chains. He and Norway's martyr Church are living testimonies . . . that no violent power can annihilate the life borne by God's spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop Berggrav's Anniversary | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Moscow: mosk'vah Smolensk: smaH'yensk Kiev: key'eff Kharkov: hark'koff Dnieper: dnyeh'pr Dniester: dnyeh'str...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: EASTERN THEATER: Wootsk & Pootsk | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Dressed warmly, his radio turned low, Astronomer Gustaf Strömberg of the Mount Wilson Observatory spends night after night looking up at a great curved slit of the heavens. Born at Gothenburg, Sweden 57 years ago, a student of physics, mathematics and celestial mechanics, listed and starred (voted outstanding by his scientific colleagues) in American Men of Science for distinguished research in stellar motions, statistics and luminosities, Gustaf Strömberg is nevertheless not the kind of scientist to pore myopically over tables and spectrum slides while taking the stars for granted. During the long nights on the mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientist on Immortality | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp-waisted constriction, and finally the cell divides into two healthy duplicates of its original self. Biologists have the devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though immaterial, the guiding wave has a structure in spacetime. Strömberg calls it a "genie" (plural, "genii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientist on Immortality | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...regatta follows: Bow L. Saltonstall '14 Capt. 165 6.00 2 J. Talcott, '16 168 6.00 3 H. H. Meyer '15 176 6.01 4 H. S. Middendorf, '16 182 6.01 5 J. W. Middendorf '16 183 6.01 6 D. P. Morgan '16 173 5.11 7 L. Curtis '16 178 6.03 str. C. C. Lund '16 169 6.00 cox H. L. F. Kreger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henley Winning 1914 Jayvee Crew, Led By Saltonstall, Reassembles Tomorrow | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

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