* Edison, the Man ( 1940 )

* The Remarkable Andrew, 1940 ( also known as Chronicle of a Literal Man )

James Thurber used the ancient fable style in his books Fables for Our Time ( 1940 ) and Further Fables for Our Time ( 1956 ), and in his stories " The Princess and the Tin Box " in The Beast in Me and Other Animals ( 1948 ) and " The Last Clock: A Fable for the Time, Such As It Is, of Man " in Lanterns and Lances ( 1961 ).

Fuchs was put into camps on the Isle of Man and later in Quebec, Canada, from June to December 1940.

* The Philosophy and Science of Man: A Collection of Texts as a Foundation for Ethics and Politics ( 1940 )

The New Republic critic Otis Ferguson wrote two short articles for the magazine, " Young Man with a Horn " ( July 29, 1936 ) and " Young Man with a Horn Again " ( November 18, 1940 ), that worked to revive interest not only in Beiderbecke's music but also in his biography.

" Young Man with a Horn " ( 1936 ) and " Young Man with a Horn Again " ( 1940 ) in The Otis Ferguson Reader ( Dorothy Wilson and Robert Chamberlain, eds .).

* The Man Who Talked Too Much ( 1940 )

Requiem is a short story by Robert A. Heinlein, serving as a sequel to his short science fiction novel, The Man Who Sold the Moon, although it was in fact published several years earlier than that story, in Astounding, January 1940.

It was published in 1940, several years before The Man Who Sold the Moon.

Stead's best-known novel, with the ironic title The Man Who Loved Children, is largely based on her own childhood, and was first published in 1940.

* The Man Who Loved Children ( 1940 )

* The Man from Dakota ( 1940 ) with Dolores del Río

* After the Thin Man on Lux Radio Theater: June 17, 1940

He had a successful Hollywood career in such films as The Long Voyage Home ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), And Then There Were None ( 1945 ), The Naked City ( 1948 ), and The Quiet Man ( 1952 ).

She filmed Third Finger, Left Hand ( 1940 ) with Melvyn Douglas and appeared in I Love You Again ( 1940 ), Love Crazy ( 1941 ) and Shadow of the Thin Man ( 1941 ), all with William Powell.

From March to May 1940 he was employed by the Brixton Theatre in London, appearing in productions of The Man in Half Moon Street, Mystery at Greenfingers and The First Mrs Fraser.

* Carter Dickson's " Error at Daybreak " ( 1938 ), " The Crime in Nobody's Room " ( 1939 ), " The New Invisible Man ", ( 1940 ), " Persons or Things Unknown " ( 1947 ) and many others

Despite their intense mutual dislike, and fights over the screenplay, My Little Chickadee was a moderate box office success, but the film outgrossed Fields's previous film, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man ( 1939 ), and the later The Bank Dick ( 1940 ).

* The Invisible Man Returns ( 1940 )

* Mannheim, K. ( 1940 ) Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction.

* This Man in Paris ( 1940 )

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

The sections were mounted on cold slides smeared with Haupts' adhesive ( Johansen, 1940 ) in earlier experiments, and in later experiments with a different mixture of the same components reported by Schramm and Rottger ( 1959 ).

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

The element was first produced by Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940.

* 1940 Peril at End House ( dramatised by Arnold Ridley )

* 1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.

* 1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.

* 1940 – The " Aufbau Ost " directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel.

Thermoplastic glue may have been invented around 1940 by Procter & Gamble as a solution to water-based adhesives commonly used in packaging at that time failing in humid climates, causing packages to open.

The 1940 discovery of a lost work by Vincent of Lérins, which bears a striking similarity to much of the language of the Athanasian Creed, have led many to conclude that the creed originated either with Vincent or with his students.

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA, which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

Penicillinase was the first β-lactamase to be identified: It was first isolated by Abraham and Chain in 1940 from Gram-negative E. coli even before penicillin entered clinical use, but penicillinase production quickly spread to bacteria that previously did not produce it or produced it only rarely.

A portrait of Broadway in the early part of the 20th century and " The Great White Way " late at night appeared in " Artist In Manhattan "( 1940 ) written by the painter-writer Jerome Myers:

It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.

The evacuation was timely, for in 1940 the Duveen Gallery was severely damaged by bombing.

Although completed in 1938, it was hit by a bomb in 1940 and remained semi-derelict for 22 years, before reopening in 1962.

The Bliss bibliographic classification ( BC ) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.

2nd Edition 1940 by Frank Schlesinger and Louise F. Jenkins.

Félix Éboué in a contemporary World War II cartoonDuring World War II, Chad was the first French colony to rejoin the Allies ( August 26, 1940 ), after the defeat of France by Germany.

The term clade was introduced in 1958 by Julian Huxley after having been coined by Lucien Cuénot in 1940, cladistic by Cain and Harrison in 1960, and cladist ( for an adherent of Hennig's school ) by Mayr in 1965.