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...more or less skeptically erected, not with any notion of permanence, but as a sort of scaffolding to bridge gaps which could not be filled with the instruments and information at hand. Example: splitting the light of distant nebulae in their spectroscopes, astronomers got spectrum lines which they could assign to no known element. Accordingly they created by mutual consent a new element, called it "nebulium," and doubted that it existed. Years later they found "nebulium" to "be their familiar friends oxygen and nitrogen, ionized into unfamiliar atomic states...
First, the Council endorses the Central Committee's plan that the professor in charge of Economics A, and similar courses, shall give the committee the names of the 20 or 30 best men in Economics. When these men have no marked preference, the committee may then assign them to Houses in which they will find the best resident tutors. Also, if the majority in a group of applicants are Fine Arts concentrators, for example, they may be assigned to, or urged to apply for, the unit with the best Fine Arts facilities...
...democracy, had prepared a list of i.ooo recipients of key positions in the Public Works and Home-owners Loan Administrations. The President, expected back at the White House this week, where he would begin to pay for the loyalty of a Congress which had denied him nothing, was to assign the jobs formally on Independence...
...total number of rooms available for members of the present Freshman class, the Committee stated, is about 739, or 35 less than the actual number of applications. With allowance for men who will not return to college next year, the Committee expects to be able to assign all of the remaining applicants to rooms in the Houses, provided a sufficiently large number of men increase their maximum rentals to include the rooms above...
Eddie Farrell is not certain just how he will assign these experienced racers but however he shuffles them, the team is expected to rape the relay. Fortunate in being represented by a galaxy of great sprinters and distance aces ever since the victorious string was started back in 1925, Farrell's troupe is now expected show strength in first events. --BY TIME...