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Word: greek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS-Eric Ambler -Knopf ($2). An English detectifiction writer sets out to trace the career of a shady Greek fig-packer whose stabbed body he saw in a Turkish morgue. Author Ambler, international traveler, scripter for Alexander Korda, artfully interweaves spidery intrigue and murder mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Most histories of education start with the Greek and Roman period and neglect the older systems, a study of which often proves invaluable, Hartshorne declared yesterday. "Max Weber, well-known sociologist and economist, is the only man I know who has written an authoritative comparative work on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW COURSE EXPLORES OLD TEACHING FIELDS | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan's vast Metropolitan Museum for an indefinite visit will go the five classical Greek statues, one ascribed to Praxiteles, which have been a star turn at the World of Tomorrow. Too precious to run the risk of torpedoes is the first group of originals that has left Greece since Lord Elgin carried off the treasures of the Acropolis to London's British Museum more than a century ago. Premiums on the five statues' insured value of $2,000,000 presumably will be paid by the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Exiled Art | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

They found still on the campus "the Colonel" (Horace M. Poynter), oldtime Latin teacher, and "Georgie" (George Walker Hinman), a Greek and Latin tutor who once bit a pencil in two when a pupil failed to conjugate amare. Missing was "Zeus" (Allen Rogers Brenner), famed old Greek teacher, many another familiar face. The old boys found other changes. In ten years a revolution had taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Andover | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Last week the California scientists announced artificial production of the hormone. When tested on bruised potato tubers, "traumatic acid" (from the Greek trauma meaning wound) "was found to be identical with the natural product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wounded Beans | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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