Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promise of a month ago that he would soon be able to manufacture the hormone secreted by the testes which accounts for masculinity (TIME, Sept. 2), Dr. Leopold Ruzicka, Swiss chemist, last week announced that his assistants in his Zurich laboratory had just cabled him word of their success. Testosterone is the name of the new hormone. It is related to the male sex hormone, androsterone, found in urine which Dr. Ruzicka previously synthesized. Like androsterone, testosterone is made from the fat (cholesterol) in sheep's wool, but is 25 to 50 times as potent a masculinizer as concentrated...
...motto from the words of a song popular in the U. S. a year ago. ''Here Come the British with a Bang, Bang." The Thirty-Nine Steps is the most effective demonstration to date of Director Alfred Hitchcock's method of artful understatement and its success, which has already been sensational abroad, should be a lesson to his Hollywood imitators. The film is an adaptation of a novel written 20 years ago by John Buchan, now Lord Tweedsmuir, who next month will go to Canada as that Dominion's Governor-General (TIME, Aug. 19). This high...
...into an abyss of mediocrity where they receive nothing for nothing, this is the year when they should take careful stock of what they want to do and learn how they can do it. There are chances open along academic, athletic, extracurricular, and social lines. The only requisite for success is the demarcation of a suitable field and the desire...
...Vagabond hears a voice: College? A convention perhaps; just a necessary caste mark. But then again four years of unique opportunities. A soft-cushioned world to try your wings. All is here: Men from every walk of life; courses in every field. The college is for the student. Success or failure his own responsibility...
Democratic Error. As a High Councilor, Dr. Carrel would promptly correct ''an error'' concerning democratic equality. Says he: "This dogma is now breaking down under the blows of the experience of the nations. It is, therefore, unnecessary to insist upon its falseness. But its success has been astonishingly long. How could humanity accept such faith for so many years? The democratic creed does not take account of the constitution of our body and of our consciousness. It does not apply to the concrete fact which the individual is. Indeed, human beings are equal. But individuals...