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Though Andrew Ellicott Douglass is a capable astronomer and director of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, he is most widely renowned for his pioneer work on the growth of tree rings. More than three decades ago Dr. Douglass had a great hunch and started examining the rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tree-Rings & Weather | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Spiked Hips. The unshapely knob at the top of the thigh bone (femur) is the hip bone. When a person, especially if elderly, falls the knob is apt to break off from the thigh bone. Healing has been a tremendously difficult and painful process. Last year Dr. David Robert Telson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breakbones, Bonesetters | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

The studio does work for libraries and scholars all over the world and only charges $25 to copy a book of 200 pages; and if one has a moving picture projector it is possible to buy rolls of film of such books for only $5. The only disadvantage of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Photostatic Department of Widener Fills 3225 Orders | 1/18/1935 | See Source »

Laytex is made from latex (rubber tree milk) from which proteins, sugars and water solubles are removed. Lengths of wire to be insulated are fed vertically through tanks containing the processed milk. At each immersion a film of milk adheres to the wire and dries, any excess falling back into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laytex After Lastex | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

THE COMING AMERICAN REVOLUTION- George Soule-Macmillan ($2.50). To most U. S. citizens, who refuse to think back to 1776, Revolution is unAmerican, unethical and downright unpatriotic. In the zoo of horrifying future events, it remains the most ferocious tiger of them all. Unalarmed by roars that are still caged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revolution Analyzed | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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