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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wells to Fold. Some three decades ago Sir Norman Lockyer, who discovered helium in the sun, urged BAAS to take some notice of social problems, to establish better communications with the public. The members snorted. Sir Norman thereupon organized the British Science Guild, which cooperated on socio-scientific matters with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: BAAS | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Sworn Enemy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A first-rate screen play by Wells Root and a first-rate performance by Joseph Calleia make this otherwise ordinary Gangster v. Government film agreeably nerve-racking. Calleia is Joe Emerald, neurotic head of a protection racket who, because his own legs are so weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

As there is no law between the nations today, so a "supreme court" of learning could never be more than a pretentious joke. Underneath it all lies science's long-nursed hope to drive the politicians from the temples and rule a brave new world through reason alone. It is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCIENCE'S STRUGGLE FOR POWER | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

"We face the question of what kind of work they ought to do. ... Thousands of ponds or small reservoirs have been built. . . . Thousands of wells have been drilled or deepened; community lakes have been created and irrigation projects are being pushed. ... In the Middle West . . . work projects run more to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Journey of Husbandry | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Just as rats make excellent laboratory animals for nutrition research, mice for cancer and monkeys for poliomyelitis, so ferrets are invaluable to influenza investigators. Ferret reactions were the basis of Harvard's Dr. William Firth Wells's demonstration last month that ultraviolet radiation kills the unknown germ or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sneeze | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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