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...translation of the New Testament into "Basic English," using a vocabulary strictly limited to 1,000 words, was published in England this week by the Cambridge University Press...
...annual meeting of the Society in Philadelphia. It was a picture of the virus which causes the mosaic disease of tobacco plants, one of the largest molecules known to chemists. It is a rod-shaped structure, about 40,000,000 times the size of the hydrogen atom (basic unit of atomic and molecular weight). But even at this size it could be photographed only with the recently developed electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28), which by using electron beams instead of light can magnify images 50 times greater than the best light microscopes...
...This myth, hitherto thought to be Semitic in origin, was taken over by all succeeding civilizations from the Assyrian to the Christian. Still more important, Kramer hopes, will be his translation of Sumerian "forerunners of the ancient myths concerned with the dying god and his resurrection, a group ... of basic significance for a scientific approach to the history of religion...
...spite of its pretensions Ziegfeld Girl is plot-heavy, entertainment-shy. It does not come up to the master effort of Director Robert Z. Leonard-The Great Ziegfeld. But it does offer generous illustration of man's Third Basic Need...
...going to reconstruct the world? Answer: Having failed in the primary, basic effort of "reconstructing" America after an expenditure of fifty billions, we are now to try to reconstruct the world at a cost nobody has even taken the trouble to compute and with a probable destructive effect on our own economy which is at present becoming highly unpopular even to mention...