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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Brünn he went by special train not as expected to Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, but to Vienna ; and from there back to Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Time Table | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...which, like the Thirty Years War in Europe (1618-48), lasted so long that men forgot, in disease, starvation and insanity, what they were fighting for. The witlings who stumble to the attack in A Piece of My World do so with forks for bayonets, rats for their baggage train, ruin for their objective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pieces of Worlds | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Simple Soul. Late one night in 1931 a Russian tenor named Vladimir Doriani hunched his small, round bulk into a Russian train on the way from one small town to another. At about 2 a.m., dozing, he began to look at other passengers and they looked strange: like cutouts. Singer Doriani, who had always hated pictures felt overcome by a desire to draw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pieces of Worlds | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Outlined by CAA were the specifications for an ultrasafe plane it expects manufacturers to build for the pilots CAA will train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Spin-Proof | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...principle is that of cutting a light beam up into a certain number of sections per second, then measuring the length of one section. This is like clocking a freight train when you know the length of the cars. If the cars are 30 feet long and you see that two of them pass a given point every second, you know the speed is 60 feet per second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fastest Thing | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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