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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food cooked by the Adams Kitchen; the Dunster Kitchen; and the Kirkland Kitchen, which serves the other Houses, is purchased by Westcott. He goes over the menus of the stewards of the three establishments, making certain that they contain sufficient Vitamin A and protein, and then contacts the wholesale dealers. If the lima beans, which might have been served in Adams House, cost too much, he substitutes another cheaper vegetable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticklish Problems in Lowering Rates Face New Council Committee on Board | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...House Contain Us (Liveright, $2), a Rumanian prize novel adapted by one Oscar Leonard, is a slick if not sleazy combination of boudoir romance and political satire, might have been influenced by Molnar, Schnitzler, any one of a thousand under-the-pillow French novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Man Years | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

CRIMSON newsboys will give out 5000 copies of the edition which is to contain the final score of the game, a detailed account of the play, and its scores of other gridiron contests. The CRIMSON has not produced a sports extra since the Sunday edition of last February 3, while the most recent post-game, final score edition was distributed after the Yale-Harvard swimming meet of March, 1933, at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POST-GAME FOOTBALL EXTRA TO BE PUBLISHED BY CRIMSON | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Just how much can a man take? Just how long can a man compromise with his ideals before he rears up on his launches and starts shooting? Those are questions of extraordinary vitality in a world which seems to contain no ideals worth shooting or dying for. Maxwell Anderson apparently believes there still are a few left. To prove it he has written a play called "Key Largo" which tells the saga of a young idealist who broke with his faith to live,--and returned...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...Providence, R. I.): Totipotency. When a flatworm (Planaria maculata, which inhabits fresh water) is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a healthy and flawless new flatworm. Just how this marvelously convenient process of regeneration in lower animals works, no one knows. One theory is that their bodies contain undifferentiated, "totipotent" cells capable of growing into any organ under some unexplained architectural guidance. Professor James Walter Wilson of Brown University hazarded the guess that higher animals, perhaps even man, may harbor these cells, but that they have become so feeble in the process of evolution that they yield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soundings | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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