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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polish Ballet), a detective-story fan, likes golf, his garden and piano, and is a fairly regular churchgoer. Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere, where he located two layers of ionized gases, resulted in the first use of reflected radio waves to measure the distance of an unseen object. Just in time for World War II, the technique developed into Britain's secret weapon: radar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: En-Nobeled Britons | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...which gave the great Wagnerian soprano her chance 13 years ago. Said Johnson: "Personally, I think it is a great loss to opera and this company that Mme. Flagstad has not returned. But if you had 7,000 subscribers who blindly agreed to take operas sight unseen at the beginning of the season, and 3,000 of them you knew had a prejudice against Mme. Flagstad's returning, would you take her back?" The answer, to Johnson, was obviously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Curtain Up | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Unseen Harvests: A Treasury of Teaching (Macmillan; $5) covers everything from Confucius' China to James Thurber's U.S.A., in poems, essays, snitches from novels and snatches of conversation ("There is now less flogging in our great schools," complained Sam Johnson, "but then, there is less learned there; so that what the boys get at one end, they lose at the other"). But most of the chapters are rather unhappy reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tales out of School | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Judging from the samplings in Unseen Harvests, students weren't the only unhappy ones. Stephen Leacock, who put in eight years as a Latin teacher before becoming an economics professor, recalled the unexpected meetings with former students ("Do you remember me," they always seemed to say, "You licked me at Upper Canada College"). More exasperating were pupils whose parents did their lessons for them: "I used to say to them: 'Paul, tell your father that he must use the ablative after pro.' " But there was always a bright spot, wrote Leacock. "It is the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tales out of School | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...raise money for some obscure and irrelevant fund, the girls of Simmons College last week auctioned off--sight unseen--dates with a Tufts man, an M.I.T. man for seven dollars, and the Harvard man--o woo of woes--sold for six dollars and fifty cents. The Simmons girls, showing feminine cunning much beyond their years, blamed the results on material circumstances. They said that they felt awkward about bidding for dates and when the Harvard man came up first, quite by chance, they were not very enthusiastic. Later on, as the bidding fever spread, prices shot skyhigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bitter Pill | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

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