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In the fateful December of 1776, in Williamsburg, Revolutionary capital of Virginia, five students of substance at the College of William & Mary were sufficiently bored with the patriotic hullabaloo to spend their time founding the world's first Greek Letter fraternity. Named Phi Beta Kappa,* it was replete with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smudged Salute | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

Dr. DeSilva believes that the dismal U. S. toll of injury, death and property loss exacted by automobile accidents (TIME, Aug. 12) is largely due to the fact that entirely too many drivers take their driving for granted, fail to assess and try to improve their skill as they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Project XS-F2-U25 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

¶ Were merely bored as Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare rambled into an unconsidered speech on Ethiopia which infuriated Italian Premier Benito Mussolini and made impossible any achievement at Geneva last week by British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 12, 1935 | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

Captain Clayton straightened up from his fiddling with the device. The sergeant barked: "Light!" Instantly the searchlight bored a narrow, dazzling hole through the darkness over the sea. Three miles away, one mile from where it was last seen, the Pontchartrain gleamed in the centre of the beam.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ship-finder | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

The picture was famed Extase, starring Austrian Hedy Kiesler, most popular cinema shown at the International Film Exposition in Venice year ago (TIME, Aug. 27). In ten reels containing only 300 words it tells the story of an unhappy bride's enthusiastic responses to a strange young man who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lascivious Ecstasy | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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