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While Stillman Infirmary will never succeed in winning the reputation of a pleasure palace, the terrors of being sent up the river with a touch of grippe have greatly diminished since Miss Corbett has become its head nurse. Announcement of her appointment last fall to succeed Mrs. Brooks, who was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REWARD FOR THE WORTHY | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

About the quality of the work on hand, Chicagoans were of two minds. One mind belonged to the Chicago Daily Tribune's conservative critic, Eleanor Jewett, who reported somewhat tartly that it was "practically a complete triumph for the modernists" and "filled with bad painting." "Modernism" being a verbal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paintings on Paper | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Lucid But Not Light. The Evolution of Physics does not contain a single mathematical equation or formula, but it is studded with a number of helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exile in Princeton | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

The eight songs go over well. The acting of the four pairs of lovers is uniformly good, but special praise is due the chorus. The muscular chorines, colorfully and often exotically gowned, have mastered their difficult routine and present it with striking precision.

Author: By C. J., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

For the past three years the holder of the award has been Robert F. Jacobsen who has conducted in collaboration with Louis F. Fieser, professor of Chemistry, an investigation of precision combustion of organic compounds and a study of various problems in phenanthrene chemistry.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICE GRADUATE GIVEN $2,000 DUPONT AWARD | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

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