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...standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation on the Effects of Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks Old Spinach Plants in Richmond and Queens Boroughs,' especially if the article concludes that the tincture has no material effect on the thrips. Mr. Friedenberg suggested that university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prose v. Jargon | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

John L. Barr Jr. '39 achieved golfdom's greatest thrill yesterday afternoon when he scored a hole-in-one on the 210-yard 12th hole at the Belmont Country Club. He used a number four wood in accomplishing the feat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF SQUAD MEMBER SCORES HOLE-IN-ONE AT BELMONT | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

...Biggest thrill to the Juan Tomas children, however, was not Albuquerque's civilization but the wonders of nature. They insisted on seeing the zoo twice, were most awed by the monkeys and lions. Said a sparkling-eyed 5-year-old, looking at the ostrich: "Oh, what a big chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First Cones | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...gave many of your readers a fine thrill in printing the picture of that wonderful character "Margery" in your issue of Feb. 21. Scientifically read, every feature and every line of that face indicates honesty and sincerity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Thrill of a Lifetime." the co-feature is a song-and-dance affair concerned with the adventures of a groupe of youngsters at a summer vacation camp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

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