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Like a crescent moon through a fog, the tenuous edge of a great physiological discovery appeared at Cornell University last week. Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, authoritative student of colloid chemistry, and Dr. G. Holmes Richter, research fellow, have been using an ultramicroscope on living sensory nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hard-Boiled Nerves | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...Professor Hanna eventually dis proved those tenuous charges of modern ism. He obediently accepted the whole papal program. Pius X relented, made him auxiliary bishop of San Francisco and titular bishop of Titopolis (1912). A new Pope, Benedict XV, promoted the onetime suspect to the archiepiscopal throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: California Cardinal? | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...only positive element which stands forth as a distinctive mark of the author. The adventures of Lewis are true to form, the duality of imagination and action is developed along the usual lines. The title, and the use of the obelisk as a symbol, have only a tenuous bond with the solid flesh of the story. The sincerity of the narration and the freedom from sophisticated or psychological patter are the bright points...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/17/1930 | See Source »

...issue riddled Senate has rejected Judge Parker who has been a storm cearer in the question of filling the Supreme Court chair left vacant by the late Justice Sanford. Party lines have been more tenuous than they were in the good days when a Republican lived on bread and beer a Democrat lived on bread and beer and both fought for hours about the tariff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE | 5/9/1930 | See Source »

Three-Power Treaty? There remained the cold-turkey possibility of a three-power treaty between Great Britain, Japan and the U. S. Legal experts were at work on rough drafts of this last week. The tenuous hope for a five-power treaty, to which Messrs. Stimson and MacDonald still clung, rested entirely on the ability of France and Italy to adjust their differences. Last week's efforts to achieve this produced nothing but a few bits of repartee. At a meeting of the naval experts, the French spokesman insisted that "all hulks capable of conversion into effective battlecraft, must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond Human Aid | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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