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...disappointments, of course... The average New Yorker does not go to the theatre in exactly the same state of mind as the average London citizen. The former has a weakness for plays that tighten and then jangle his nerves. Our London audiences like to be gently moved, to melt into the rose-tinted twilight of the Haymarket or Wyndham's, because of some fairy-tale nonsense." Thus putting his finger on the reason many an English play fails in New York, British Playwright Priestley proceeded to bring forth a typical one, about a shopworn actress who returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...thickness of the lines seems to vary seasonally, as do the small dots which mark their intersections. This would seem to prove a waxing and waning vegetation along their banks which flourishes and dier as the polar ice caps melt and collect again, which occurs every year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTRONOMERS PROVE MARS IS UNINHABITED | 10/31/1935 | See Source »

...into very thin slices 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 1 stick of celery. Melt 1 oz. butter in a stewpan and fry with vegetables for a few minutes without browning. Add 2½ lb. tomatoes, cut into slices, and cook for a few more minutes. Add 2 pints of water, small clove of garlic and bunch of herbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Soupstakes | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other heavy elements 4,000 miles in diameter surrounded by a rocky shell 2,000 miles thick. As eons pass, "the persistent release of atomic forces continue, and will continue to supply heat and melt the surrounding shell with the result that Mother Earth may eventually take her place among the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earth & Man | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...baseball game began soon afterwards with a cold wind blowing and the crowd shivering. After the first few innings, the people began to melt away and a crowd which had been capacity at the first of the game soon dwindled to a mere nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bolman Gives Oration, Lansing Reads Poem in Colorful Class Day Program | 6/20/1935 | See Source »

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