Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jewish opponents of the British Government's recently announced scheme for the partition of Palestine (TIME, July 19 et ante), last week were holding their fire pending the first debate on the subject in the House of Commons this week...
Whether the pace of invention and technological improvement is beneficial or harmful to society as a whole, is a large subject which lends itself to long-winded diatribes and has already been debated to a frazzle. Secretary Wallace has warned Science that it had better consider taking a holiday. Scientists, including Caltech's Millikan, M. I. T.'s Karl Taylor Compton and Bell Telephone's Frank Baldwin Jewett have retorted that Science makes jobs by creating new industries. One of the most telling thrusts which defenders of Science have made against the bogey of "technological unemployment...
...sandpaper in a tin cigaret box went to Washington one day last week on a routine assignment for the New York Times Sunday magazine. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 57, had done this many times before. He would draw a picture of a newsworthy personage and, while doing it, interrogate his subject enough to make a one-page interview to publish with his charcoal sketch. Sometimes he would jot down a few notes about what the person said on the edge of his drawing, but mostly he relied on his amazingly accurate memory. When he was all finished he would...
...this time with the parliamentary device of indefinitely continuing the same 'legislative' day by 'recessing' instead of 'adjourning' at the close of each session and the consequent application of the rule that a Senator shall not speak more than twice on the same subject during the same day. But study of precedents at Washington has brought out the fact that in the past the invariable custom of the Senate on the announcement of the death of one of its members has been immediately to adjourn, not recess, for the day in respect...
...were far more acute than Englishmen." Except for "the smell peculiar to all things Russian-rotten leather or duck," she found them more attractive than they were painted. Spanish bullfights (where she admired the bulls more than the matadors) were much more interesting than European picture galleries. A Rubens subject was "nauseating because she looked as if she would melt into thick fat if she were squeezed." Another painter gave his girls eyes "like rotting goose-berries." French women were "very fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach Japanese women about coquetry. From Italy she carried...