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Word: experimental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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If gaping peasants in northern France, Germany or Poland last week thought they saw six white storks with wings dyed pink and green, aluminum bands on their legs and magnets strapped to their heads, the peasants had not lost their minds. The storks were indeed so equipped. They were subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetic Storks | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Heiser quoted a now-classic experiment : "Sir Robert McCarrison established in India [in the early 1920s] a thoroughly healthy rat colony. The [1,189] stock rats were fed a diet similar to that eaten by certain peoples of northern India, among whom are some of the finest physical specimens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thought for Food | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Aground, while the pilots work to repair the ship, this ill-assorted group finds itself living out an experiment in communism, taking orders from the chief pilot (Chester Morris), lessons in exemplary citizenship from the anarchist (Joseph Calleia). Surrounding this jungle commune is a tribe of headhunters, who pick off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Main job of a State university president is to handle his State Legislature. Big, blond, booming Robert Gordon Sproul, 48, an ambitious executive and politician-president of the University of California, who recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TEN TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL COLLEGE PRESIDENTS | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

The Album had a good idea. But its first experiment in intellectual interpretation cannot be called a success. It is not only inaccurate; it is synthetic, unreal. The senior, taking his place beside the graduates of other years, is a marked man. He is branded as a conscious intellectual, an...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DADDY, YOU'RE WONDERFUL!" | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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