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Last week Author Nicolson published his uncle's biography, Helen's Tower. He now recognizes a number of contradictions in his uncle's career; his Liberalism and his love of property, his pity for the Irish peasantry and his opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Uncle | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Since the War, F.W.D. has thrived in the commercial field with an early cab-over-engine job and with such husky specialized products as snowplows, fire-engines and machines capable of installing telephone poles in five minutes, hole and all. About 50,000 four-wheel drive vehicles are now in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Drive | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Most astronomers believe that auroras are caused by swarms of electrified particles shooting out from the sun. Like a compass needle, these particles seek the Poles and they visibly ionize the air atoms, as an electric current ionizes gas atoms in a commercial sign. Auroras are brighter and more frequent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Aurora | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

During the holiday the Vagabond planned to take a motor trip from New York to Washington. Now despite his numerous roamings and rovings, the Vagabond has long been the victim of two middle-aged tyrants, called parents by facetious sociologists and naive maiden aunts, who are cruelly solicitous for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

By August of last year Anderson was more inclined to believe that a new particle really existed than that the Bethe-Heitler theory was at rault. Further help for the theory came from the researches of Caltech's H. Victor Neher at San Antonio, Tex., and Madras, India. Cosmic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X-Particle | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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