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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, dashing John Anderson (Journal & American) is Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Makers & Breakers | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Europe's theologies today are predominantly those of "crisis." designed not only for catastrophes which may over take the world but for crises arising be tween men of faith and their God. Published this week was a valuable guidebook to crisis theologies - Contemporary Continental Theology- by Walter Marshall Horton, professor of theology at Oberlin College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crisis Theologies | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the improbability of some events possible in theoretical physics is so great that a number somewhere be tween a googol and a googolplex would be required to express it. However, Dr. Kasner points out that no number is anywhere near infinity so long as it can actually or theoretically be written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Googol | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Choice for President Clark's successor depended upon the perennial rivalry be tween Baptist liberals and Baptist Funda mentalists, and a Fundamentalist won this week. He was Rev. Earle Vaydor Pierce of Lake Harriet Church in Minneapolis, called a "co-operating Fundamentalist" , because he holds his noisy brethren in helps avoid open rows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gatherings for God | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Tokyo was tense last week with citizens in ignorance of behind-the-scenes doings in the grim Oriental tug-of-war be tween Army and Party leaders which upset the Hirota Cabinet (TIME, Feb.1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Assassins & Premiers | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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