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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ropes. He had worn them secretly, continually for twelve years, save in 1923 when, taken ill, he was careful to remove them before going to a hospital. Said Father Talbot, reporting the event in America a year later: "There are no accidents in this universe. Matt Talbot's sudden heart attack and his instantaneous death were Divinely purposeful. They betrayed him to a world that needs his example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Lumberman | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...become so small as to coincide with its chord.) Professor Edward Kasner of Columbia University projected a four-dimensional geometry, found the ratio could be less than one. More important, he found that the ratio does not diminish steadily as the length of the arc is diminished, but in sudden jumps-from 1 to 0.94 to 0.86 to 0.80. . . . The changes in subatomic energy occur in lumps, and these changes he found to correspond to the diminishing jumps of Ratio of Arc to Chord. He hoped his theory might link relativity with the Quantum Theory, bring the energy processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tigers, Men, Stars, RAC | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

When a rich man or woman goes quietly for years about the business of subsidizing music, his philanthropy comes to be taken for granted. Manhattan three weeks ago heard with regret of the sudden passing of Harriet Bishop Lanier, relict of Banker James F. D. Lanier (Winslow, Lanier & Co.), who in 19 years gave nearly $1,000,000 toward the support of the Society of the Friends of Music. Fortnight ago people perfunctorily approved a memorial concert to Mrs. Lanier in which Conductor Artur Bodanzky presented the Actus Tragicus, Bach's mourning cantata. But last week musical people were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wanted: A Patron | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...have their output down to 55,000 tons a month. To this must be added about 30,000 tons a month from noncooperating mines mostly in Japan, Germany & Russia, the total bringing output into line with world consumption. U. S. producers wanted the reduction and remembering Katanga's sudden step-up last year hinted broadly it should accept it willingly. Instead Katanga was said to have countered with a proposal for 25% reduction in shipments only and creation surplus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Copper Quarrel | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...friend came in. They talked and laughed. A half hour later Senator Caraway lay dead in his bed. A sudden blood clot in the coronary artery had killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Death of Caraway | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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