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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase of shopkeepers in recent years has increased the use of money, instead of rice, as a medium of exchange. More moneyed farmers may now hire labor instead of exchanging it. In this rural microcosm of Japan, Embree distinguishes six classes: upper upper, lower upper, upper middle, lower middle, upper lower, lower lower. Some 27% of households have at least one servant, 26% include someone educated beyond the village school, 12% subscribe to newspapers. Suye Mura has one motorcycle, no automobiles, 160 bicycles, four sewing machines, five radios, 20 phonographs, and one telephone (in the village office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Upper Upper to Lower Lower | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...expose, The Hospital conceives of the big modern hospital as a social microcosm where conditions become specially favorable for study of society with its hair down. The story, told through the eyes of a dozen characters, is concentrated in a maximum half hour of a sweltering summer afternoon. Revolving from furnace room to Surgery, from the laundry to superintendent's office, it includes autopsy room, nurses' quarters, wards, clinic, even a scene in which a tugboat is loaded with consignments for potter's field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feverish | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Deal Olympus, flatly plumped for Representative Otha Donner Wearin in this week's Democratic Senatorial primary (TIME, June 6). What would otherwise have been a routine performance amid the fields of waving corn, with Senator Guy Mark Gillette walking sedately off renominated, was instantly transformed into a microcosm of the national political situation, a furious hurly-burly involving scores of participants far beyond Iowa's borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Iowa Microcosm | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...first four constants are fundamental to Quantum Mechanics, which deals with the microcosm of the atom. The last two are fundamental to four-dimensional spacetime, which deals with the macrocosm of the universe. The velocity of light, c, is fundamental to both. According to Eddington, c is the natural "grain" of world structure. It is the velocity which cannot be surpassed, the speed at which masses become infinite, clocks stop, measuring rods contract to zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Constant Uproar | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...jail cell at Terre Haute, Waldo Frank found a microcosm of the U. S. jungle: "In the Terre Haute jail I had our world with me: the atavistic, careless and abnormal; the future, striving to be; the dolorous, dangerous present. I felt at home there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungled Orator | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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