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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cepheid variable stars, whose fluctuating light beams enable measurement of great interstellar distances, may prove also to hold important new clues to forces at work within the great island universes, or galaxies like our own Milky Way, Harlow Shapley, Director of the Observatory, recently told the National Academy of Sciences...
...work, but they give it life. It is encouraging to see two actresses, with storehouses of experience behind them, land parts that give them a chance to hit the boards with some real acting, not just sideline mugging. They both make the best of their opportunities, especially Miss Taylor, whose char-woman was one of the best, if not the best, performance of last year's Broadway season...
...Woman With Plants (see cut, p. 57) was picked by both Craven and Boswell. Because it confines itself by its title, Modern American Painting, in its color reproductions, gives a vivid and telescopic view of the changing U. S. from 1738 to 1939. Biographies of the 68 artists whose work is reproduced help make this book the most complete and authoritative record of the American School...
...coal industry, one of the few industries really exporting its product (to neutrals whose English-German sources are cut off), was so swamped that paradoxically, in spite of steady, increasing exports to Canada, Bethlehem Steel ordered 6,000 tons of coke a month from the Steel Co. of Canada's Hamilton (Ont.) plant...
...speech about the war by leaders of thought in this country are deplored in a recent editorial. With as much logic as grace you suggest one speaker as evil because you infer his association with material wealth, but seem even more at loss to explain the attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free, but modern warfare, in which...