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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black and white reproductions-and television cannot yet transmit color-Charles Sheeler's dryly accurate paintings can scarcely be told from his camera studies of similar scenes. Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art's show could more readily distinguish between his canvases and photographs, see also his drawings and industrial designs. Stoop-shouldered, scholarly Artist Sheeler, 56, likes to paint barns, skyscrapers, old furniture, factories. All these meet the Sheeler fondness for functionalism. Ignored in his paintings are men and women-inefficient machines capable of measuring the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Renaissance by Telecast | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...help readers distinguish between war news and war propaganda last week Manchester Boddy's enterprising Los Angeles Daily News and Evening News adopted a system of labeling European dispatches. The Daily News used alphabetical symbols. OP stood for "official propaganda," SA meant "seems authentic," "V" meant "verified." Over foreign cables in the Evening News were drawings of a key bearing the same words written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: SA | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...paper Harvard University looks like a snap to navigate. Actually the office buildings, stores, and fruit stands which press about the University make the problem no cinch for the tyro who cannot distinguish between the Cambridge Trust Company and Holyoke House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEOGRAPHY OF HARVARD PUZZLES TYROS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...Fish left together in groups get to know one another personally," wrote Dr. Noble in the Collecting Net* last week, "even where there are no sexual or individual external differences which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fish Society | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...present moment it is difficult to find two people who can agree on the ideal of a liberally educated man. This much seems certain--such a man should have catholic tastes and many intellectual interests, and he should be able to distinguish between knowledge and superficial information. In four short years no one can take enough courses to begin to satisfy a really alive and active intellectual curiosity. One of the many things we fail to accomplish in our colleges today is to convince our students that self-education is really possible and can be profitably pursued through life

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Praises Freedom and Interchange of Views Made Possible by Atmosphere of Large University | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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