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...majoring seriously in the field. Although the only stated prerequisite is Geology 1, don't be misled and take the course without having more experience than the elementary course provides. Junior year will be soon enough. The lab and theory are difficult, and be sure you have your trig in hand. 2b is a dull course, but it, too, is probably essential. It demands a great deal of detailed memorization of the structure of the entire United States. You'd better get this one out of the way as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION | 3/11/1941 | See Source »

...romanticism of a schoolgirl in her teens to the neurotic distress of a mature young woman. She sings sweetly, does high kicks and jazz steps (though with the years they seem somewhat angularly British). She models as few other women could an ar ray of costumes ? from a trig purple suit to a sequined man-killer? that had Designer Hattie Carnegie's telephone ringing constantly on the morning after the opening. Once, in changing costumes, Gertie does the next thing to a striptease' exposing herself in a cobwebby black lace slip. Naturally in Lady in the Dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Thrilled was a large sector of the nation's womanhood with the news that Ginger Rogers would play Kitty. Ginger, with her shoulder-length tresses, her trig figure, her full lips, her prancing feet and honest-to-goodness manner, is the flesh-&-blood symbol of the U. S. working girl. When Ginger emotes, only a nonconforming female heart fails to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Commissioned second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Nurse Corps, trig, 22-year-old Volunteer Rena Hayman, lately a registered nurse at the Quincy, Mass. City Hospital, headed for West Point and her first assignment. Officering, trilled she, is "wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Tall, trig, suave, 66, Charles McNary has been in politics 34 years, spent 23 of them in the U. S. Senate. No one in the G. O. P. is better qualified to help Novice Willkie through the guiles and intricacies he would face in Washington. Easygoing Senator McNary, leader of the minority, has won many a triumph himself with nothing up his sleeve but pure, political cunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Soldier | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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