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...rives its name from the Greek word meaning lead-like, is known in trade as "moly." Little use was found for the metal until the end of the 19th Century, when it was tried as an alloy for tool steels. Sulphur in the moly compounds then available un did what good the metal contributed, with the result that tungsten became the stand ard steel hardener. Not until the War, when it was employed in guns, motors, light armor plate, did moly impress steel makers...
Women always came to Ben's rescue. He was a handsome young fellow, in an excitingly un-English style ; he was one of the greatest dandies of his post-Byronic day; he had beautiful manners and a pretty wit. One Mrs. Austen now played ministering angel to Ben's despair, ar ranged for the anonymous publication of an other society novel, better than his abortive first. Vivian Grey's success soared quickly to notoriety: the reviewers accused Ben of everything from blackmail down. Ben's sensitive soul was crushed again, and Mrs. Austen whisked...
...must not be hasty in judging the Harvard Student Union. Perhaps it is as sincerely American as it pretends to be, and will therefore repudiate an Administration resorting to this most un-American treatment of an efficient army officer for criticizing the President, not as his Commander-in-Chief, but as the executive head of the country of which he is a citizen, entitled to the privilege of free speech guaranteed to everyone by the Bill of Rights. D. P. Hays...
...symphonic composition. Not only has Comrade Shostakovich been Bol- shevism's musical darling, but Capitalism in Manhattan put on its boiled shirts and sped to the splendiferous Metropolitan Opera House premiere of his master work, Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (TIME, Feb.11, 1935). Pravda called Shostakovich's compositions "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric and tuneless." The devastating Communist epithet "bourgeois" was tagged to them. Rehearsals of his latest ballet Limpid Stream, on which the Corps de Ballet of Moscow's great Bolshoi Theatre have been working diligently for months, were canceled. As Soviet critics leaped...
...Boston Symphony in giving the fifth concert in its Sanders Theatre series tonight. The program consists of Beetheven's Sixth Symphony (the Pastoral), Debussy's "Prelude a I' Apres-midi d'un Faune," "Till Eulcnspiegel's Merry Pranks," by Richard Strauss, and Professor Piston's Concerto for orchestra. Of these, the first three have already been performed this year at the concerts in Boston. The concerto by Mr. Piston, who is sometimes known as a "classicist," was composed in 1933 and was recently played by the Boston Symphony in New York. It will be remembered that the Second String Quartet...