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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. George Harrison Shull, professor of botany and genetics at Princeton University, gave hybrid corn to the world free of charge. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture pointed out last week-just for fun-that if old Dr. Shull had received a royalty of only 1? an acre for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Santa Claus's Corn | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Last week Arturo Toscanini, having finished off his first series of broadcasts with Radio City's NBC Symphony, hopped off to California for a rest. His place was taken by another little white-haired maestro, this time one unfamiliar to U. S. audiences. The new maestro, who had just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Conductor | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The opera has been Milton Cross's job, hobby, and spiritual sustainer for more years than NBC has been a patron. As a boy, vacationing from his Hell's Kitchen Manhattan neighborhood, he fought for the job of delivering butter to the great Louise Homer's country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

As for the literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Just as at opening of opera or cinema, news photographers whanged away to the giddy glare of flash bulbs. They caught tycoonery (see cuts), failed only to re-record the serious things which the tycoons had come for. During their sessions they:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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