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...Jeans had stuck to his astronomical knitting, only scientists would ever have heard of him. But he was that great rarity, a first-rate scientist with a command of lucid English. Starting in the late 1920s, he wrote a series of best-selling books* which brought the new discoveries of science, unblemished by errors or indignity, down to the popular level...
Died. Paul Rosenfeld, 56, author (Port of New York), music and art critic, a guiding spirit of the American literary renaissance of the 1920s, founder (with Van Wyck Brooks and Waldo Frank) of the "little magazine" Seven Arts, early champion of modernist Composers Stravinsky, Copland, Milhaud; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...1920s he moved into state politics, fought one last struggle for political power against huge and ruthless Luke Lea, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, won, and then controlled the state...
Marchers in the preliminary parade denied any political partiality, saying merely that they were dadaists. (Dadalsm was a bohemian movement in Germany and France in the 1920s which produced cubist art and specialized in nonsense.) The dadaists were applauded after the demonstration by the HLU, which credited them with bringing out a large crowd, and by the Conservative League, which was grateful for the Boston newspapers' mistake...
Peking Man-Sinanthropus pekinensis-was the paleontological sensation of the 1920s. To Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, Peking Man "ranks as the most important discovery in the whole history of human evolution." His first traces-two teeth-were found in 1921 in a "dragon-bone" cave* at Choukoutien, 40 miles southwest of Peking. Digging continued through 1941 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. High point was the discovery of the first skull in 1929. Geological data indicated that Peking Man lived over 500,000 years ago, which would make him older than the Piltdown and Neanderthal Man and possibly...