Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your account of Nikola Tesla on his 75th birthday [TIME, July 20] was one of the finest things I've ever seen in your magazine. It is all too seldom that Dr. Tesla gets adequate publicity...
...given a low centre of gravity so they could take more punishment in battle without turning over and sinking. Secretary of the Navy Adams, minimizing the effect of the roll on their "excellent" gunfire record, declared: "No ship, yacht or cruiser is ever exactly right at first. We've been building yachts under racing rules for 25 years and haven't yet gotten the limit of speed possible. Warships are even harder. The way to build ships is to constantly keep building them instead of trying to build all of them at once...
Said Henry Ford: "People are doing a lot of thinking today. They've got to get used to a new era. We are in a different era and we have got to face...
...these so-called "peanut brittle" violins and do the things we do with them. That would prove to you, more than anything we could say here that the instruments we use are regulation violins and the only reason they smash with such apparent ease is because we've had a lot of practice doing...
...Lost World (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925), and from other life-explaining sources, went to Mr. Darrow and said: "I understand that ever since the Scopes trial you've wanted to put forward a motion picture to educate the people to your contentions about Evolution." An arrange ment was made whereby Mr. Laemmle's Universal Pictures would supplement Mr. Cummins' bits with connectives and shots of Mr. Darrow. No scientist, and very, very serious about the proposed picture, Lawyer Darrow called in Smith College's goateed Professor Howard Madison Parshley and they spent three hardworking months preparing explanatory dialog. Last week...