Word: subject
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Opera Company. Since that time he has ostensibly been a musical handyman, editing Musical America, which under his regime went bankrupt, writing miscellaneous articles for magazines, expounding opera on the radio (TIME, Nov. 18). In secret he has struggled with the commissioned opera. His first choice of subject was Candle Follows his Nose, short story by his one-time (New York World) colleague Columnist Heywood Broun. Last spring he announced that he had shelved Candle in favor of Street Scene (TIME, March 18), current Pulitzer-prizewinning play by Elmer Rice, about Manhattan tene- ment life. Last week he announced...
...Hart, Schaffner & Marx prize for an undergraduate economic essay, founded in 1903, was won last week by Jean Trepp, Wellesley, 1929. Subject: "Trade Union Interest in Production...
...gorilla has but one species of two subspecies and not 15 or more, as scientists previously believed, declares H. J. Coolidge, Jr. '27, assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, after the first exhaustive study ever made of most of the material now available on the subject throughout the world. His findings are set forth in a monograph just published by the Museum of Comparative Zoology under the title "A Revision of the Genus Gorilla...
...Strong in 1927, he was enabled to study the gorilla at first hand, in the mountains of the Eastern Belgian Congo. Since that time, through study in the museums of several countries, he has had access to the major part of the material available throughout the world upon the subject...
...Coolidge employs four means of studying the skulls: the voluminous literature on the subject, x-ray pictures, scale photographs, and comparative measurements. He devotes the major part of his study to the skull, as is the custom in scientific research. He studied over 400 of them besides examining many hides and skeletons which also show great variation and are of accessory value in classification...