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...like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran; pay for it like a Presbyterian; conciliate it like a Congregationalist; glorify it like a Jew; be proud of it like an Episcopalian ; practice it like a Christian Scientist; propagate it like a Roman Catholic; work for it like a Salvation Army Lassie; enjoy it like a colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Federal Council's Biennial | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...also to write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with $300,000 worth of broadcasting service. Most popular Council program is the University of Chicago Round Table, in which chatty professors like Philosopher Thomas Vernor Smith and Political Scientist Jerome Kerwin discuss such topics as "The Elections" or "The Abdication of Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Radio Conference | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...other hand, other sulfur compounds inhibit growth. These may be the body's regular protective guard against cancer. Miss Medes has made it her job to find out the answer to this phase of the cancer question, no matter what the cost. Thus far the brave scientist has discovered in her body none of the lumps, malaise, sores, cachexia that harbinger the world's most frightful blight. Said she last week: "I don't mind being a guinea pig. But I do mind being called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lankenau Experimenter | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Rochester, where it was once a landmark with two whale bones forming an arch at the entrance. Last week a newshawk queried ten policemen and two hotel clerks without finding one who knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there are just two things in America I wanted to see. One was the Grand Canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ward's | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Hess was the first man to see clearly that the cosmic rays were cosmic-that is, that they did not come from the earth or the atmosphere. Enthusiastic Austrians once called this mysterious radiation "Hess Rays," just as an enthusiastic U. S. scientist later called them "Millikan Rays." Cosmic rays, as almost everyone now knows, bombard Earth continuously from every direction in the sky. No one knew this when the 20th Century opened. About that time it was observed that some sort of radiation from somewhere was constantly ionizing the air in electroscopes. Some theorists thought the source was radioactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three Prizes | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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