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...anything of like value had ever been discovered in the Americas, the digger was no honorable scientist. The gold alone in this Mixtec tomb was estimated at more than $1,000,000. Museums and private collections would pay almost any amount for the trinkets. This was treasure too precious for Professor Caso to keep in his home down in Oaxaco. Last week he secretly carried them to the vaults of the local branch of the Bank of Mexico. Then he dared make his report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tomb of the Clouds | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...confidence they have had the advantage of being supported by such patriotic and patrician men of science as Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Thomas Sloggett, who was director general of medical services to the British Army in the War, and the late George James Playfair, Baron Playfair, an outstanding medical scientist who used to cheer patients with an account of his part in the action at Shipka Pass in the Turkish War of 1877. While the exact process by which Bovril is distilled from meat is secret, Bovril, Ltd. has never attempted to conceal the fact that it takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Britain's Bottle | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

President Lowell's excellent report on the condition's in graduate schools again brings to the fore a moot point: is it the purpose of the scholar or scientist (for I make small distinction between them) to be eminent in his field; or (eminence being for him a side issue and of no significance) does he rather seek after beauty and truth for the sake only of beauty and truth? If the former, then surely "the glory of a university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." If the latter, will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Incentives to the Scholar | 1/6/1932 | See Source »

...Bounds" in American Game, describing the embarrassing overabundance of deer in Pennsylvania. But I fear the Governor and the Pennsylvania Game Commission will not "confirm" the promotion you give me in your article. I am by no means "Pennsylvania's Game Commissioner," but merely the humble research scientist to the Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1931 | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...dies, wishing he could have one more drink. Leora dies too, while Arrowsmith is away inoculating natives against plague and making friends with a lady who, in the picture, does not become his second wife. Arrowsmith comes home to tell Gottlieb, who started him on his career as a scientist, that he has broken his promise to experiment on the natives, been contemptibly humane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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