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Whimpering Tenors. In Moscow one-time Soviet Minister of Education Anatole Lunacharsky said, after listening to a pre-release of several new U. S. singing films: "They were spoiled for me by the vulgar, overfed faces of the tenors. . . . I could readily dispense with their tasteless mimicry, their coquettish rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sensitive Europeans | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

In telling the story of improvement in American gunnery, he stated that, from the point of view of results achieved, the British Admiral Sir Percy Scott is the most remarkable naval of flcer the world has produced. In 1898 the American navy fired a shell 2000 yards once every five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICA IS SAFE FROM FOREIGN ATTACK--SIMS | 2/8/1930 | See Source »

In parts of this area, especially along the valleys and on the lower slopes of the hills, there are obvious signs of recent glaciation, but in others the rare glacial striae and the few transported boulders present are so far obliterated or rotted away that Professor Coleman concludes these regions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FERNALD DESCRIBES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

With true fisherman's fatalism, two months ago with calmness and clarity he reviewed U. S. letters since 1900 in The Saturday Review of Literature. The essay, Perry-patetically called "Salmon Not Running," concluded that "big" books, like big fish, must be awaited in patience but are worth the trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pedagog Perry | 1/25/1930 | See Source »

With true fisherman's fatalism, two months ago with calmness and clarity he reviewed U. S. letters since 1900 in The Saturday Review of Literature. The essay. Perry-patetically called "Salmon Not Running." concluded that "big" books, like big fish, must be awaited in patience but are worth the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pedagog Perry | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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