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He decided to prove his point by breeding a strain of highly emotional rats, another strain of unemotional rats. His arena for testing rat emotion was a well-lighted circular enclosure about seven feet across, with a smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Emotional Rats | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

On to the balcony of St. Peter's, as twilight turned to darkness, stepped a tall, lean, greying man in white, wearing an ermine-bordered red cape. Pope Pius XII -whose 63rd birthday it was-raised his hand in the gesture of a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Habemus Papam | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

¶ A large explosion and fire in an electric plant in London threw a section of the city into darkness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: S-Plot | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

The Prince sat in the music room of his country palace, listening to a new symphony by his court Kapellmeister. The stocky, periwigged Kapellmeister himself sat at the harpsichord, bobbing out the rhythm with his head, cuing in an occasional oboe or bassoon with one lace-cuffed hand. Before him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Farewell Symphony | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

In Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Gardiner's two-story frame house caught fire. Awakened by the smoke, Mrs. Gardiner's sister wrapped one-month-old Kevin Gardiner in blankets, called to men in the yard, and dropped the baby from the second-story window. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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