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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against various cosmetic manufacturers whose products she has publicized. When Judge Patrick Stone insisted that she give her age, Miss Hopper-looking except at close range not a day over 35-wrote a figure on a piece of paper, handed it to him. The judge's eyebrows shot toward the ceiling. The figure (if it agreed with the date of her birth in Who's Who in the Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Workman came from behind. As attendants were loading the carcass of Rock Lad upon an ambulance, Royal Danieli, Battleship and Workman thundered over the last jump. Cooleen and Delachance were fourth and fifth, Blue Shirt far behind in seventh place. Nose and nose Royal Danieli and Battleship raced toward the finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 11-Year-Old Stallion | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...rest of his life to the research for a Unified Field Theory which would comprehend all natural phenomena. He knows that such a fantastically ambitious goal will never be reached by a straight frontal attack. He has been probing around it, looking for avenues of approach, circuitously groping toward unity. Nearly a decade ago he actually announced a Unified Field Theory, but discarded it when flaws were detected. Later he found a way to handle particles as bridges connecting two contiguous "sheets" of space. His associates now cough sadly behind their hands when the space-sheets are mentioned, and Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exile in Princeton | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

More complicated were reactions to discussion of labor unions. Groups, most of whom favored unions, heard a paper disparaging unions. Result was a marked shift to a less favorable attitude toward unions, but the lesson also split the groups sharply into two camps. This outcome Professor Remmers attributed to the explosiveness of the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Plastic Minds | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Tests made six months afterwards showed, however, that much of its effect was unimpaired. A method of "incidental learning" proved, however, to be more effective than propaganda. Pupils in Catholic parochial schools, who had a system of self-government, proved to be more stern toward violators of the law than those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Plastic Minds | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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