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...that in his opinion there were no genuine Rembrandts in the Metropolitan; further, that there were only 35 genuine Rembrandts in the world.* And in the past six or seven years a Scotch chemist named Arthur P. Laurie has been travelling from museum to museum with his microscope, his X-ray and ultra violet machines, casting doubt upon half the Rembrandts of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Demoted | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...what he wished with electrons and protons. At that temperature matter's subunits dance around each other and coalesce as atoms; atoms break up into their electron and proton elements; and every explosion, every coalescence scatters atomic energy. Professor Compton cannot duplicate solar heat, but with a mighty X-ray tube, he calculates, he can drive particles of matter at speeds so nearly solar that new atoms will result. His tool will be a 10,000-volt tube, five times the size of the tube whose description won the American Association for the Advancement of Science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Men & Atoms | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...school in all departments. Specimen cases such as those on which the students work, reports of recent important investigations, and regular clinics in action will be among the sights for the visitors. The several departments taking part in the exhibition are the Operative, Prosthetic, Surgical, Orthodontia, Dental Anatomy, X-ray, Photography, and Research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 4/3/1931 | See Source »

Included in the afternoon program are talks illustrating the work of the students in the various fields. Also of interest to the visitors is the display of the X-ray survey which was made this year of the Harvard Freshman Class, the first of its kind held anywhere. At 5 o'clock an exhibit of the progress and development of the Research Department will be held, to be followed immediately by motion pictures taken by the school photographer, illustrating several of the most important parts of the work of the school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 4/3/1931 | See Source »

Sued. Elsie French and Anne Colby* ("X-Ray Twins") Vanderbilt, month-old daughters of William Henry Vanderbilt and Mrs. (Anne Gordon Colby) Vanderbilt; along with 24 of their kin, all heirs of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died : by the U. S. Government; for $800,000 in profits, back taxes and interest from the sale in 1927 of the Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Valued at $3,000,000, it was sold for $7,100,000 which reverts to the heirs at the death of 86-year-old Mrs. Alice Gwynne ("The Dowager Mrs.") Vanderbilt. The Government regards the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

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