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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zoology department has recently bought for about $450 a machine which enables the worker to dissect living organisms so small they must be viewed through a microscope. Fine glass needles are so arranged in the instrument that a coarse movement of the hand lever registers only the slightest motion in the needles. The worker can actually touch the nerves of tiny cells with his instrument and watch the muscular reaction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delicate Instruments, Powerful Microscopes and Costly Equipment Are in University Laboratories | 10/26/1933 | See Source »

...acquainted with their characters gradually, naturally, by seeing and hearing them in action. Author Robert Smythe Hichens, 68, who wrote his first novel, The Coastguard's Secret, in 1881 and his most popular one, The Garden of Allah, in 1905, likes to lay his puppets in a row, dissect them body & soul in advance. In The Paradine Case he takes most of 332 prolix pages for this job. But the reader who gets through these may feel repaid by some 200 pages about the trial itself, mostly swift, naked, exciting questions & answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cause Célèbre | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...said many times before. The work of Professor Read studies the subject from a new angle, but in the final analysis, his study has magnified one small aspect of Wordswroth's life so far beyond its correct proportion that his conclusions are meaningless. It is not so important to dissect. Wordsworth under the eyes of modern psychology as it is to attempt a tolerant and cogent understanding of his poetry. As a great poet unfortunately out of vogue. Wordsworth does not need a historian or a psychiatrist, but a great critic, a literary game apparently also out of vogue...

Author: By H. A. R., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/3/1931 | See Source »

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