Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harding was going to or had come over to see us and ask for the cornea. In fact there was so much publicity before any of us heard directly about it, that many condemned men thought it was merely a publicity stunt and therefore distrustful of the whole thing. There were also newspaper stories to the effect the request was made to us through the prison chaplain, but the truth is the only thing we ever got was a form letter with newspaper clipping attached from Mr. Harding...
...Idaho's Senator Pope (New Dealer), beaten for renomination by Representative D. Worth Clark and a last-minute blizzard of religious pamphlets, appeared in Hyde Park last week seeking Administration backing to run as an independent in November. Seeking the same thing: Representative-reject Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Texas...
Arthur Murray had other things besides a new dance to think of. Although he has done a mail-order business since 1921, with 750,000 pupils, neither he nor any other top-notch teacher had ever tapped the dancing masses by means of a book. This week he proposed to do that very thing, with How To Become a Good Dancer, result of three years of collaboration between him and his publishers.* Most notable novelty in Teacher Murray's book is its eight cut-outs-The Murray Magic Footprints. Put these on the floor according to diagrams...
...gravel at Swanscombe, Kent some human skull fragments which he thought to be of antiquity comparable with the Piltdown skull (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936). Academic anthropologists at first paid him no heed. But when the Swanscombe relic was examined under scholastic auspices, it was seen to be a remarkable thing indeed. Indubitably ancient, though probably not quite so old as the Piltdown, it had modern anatomical features. Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, who is 72, gave it as his opinion that the Swanscombe skull is the most important fossil discovery made in England during his lifetime...
...hers which has served to confuse an entire generation, remarked of John Ferren in Everybody's Autobiography: "He is the only American painter foreign painters in Paris consider a painter and whose painting interests them. He is young yet and might, only perhaps nobody can, do that thing called abstract painting. The minute painting gets abstract, it gets pornographic...