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...higher the temperature of the filament the (brighter, stronger) the light emitted...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...modernization program. But its earnings picture is once again favorable: third-quarter net per common share was $1.08, v. 75? a year ago, with sales of $88.7 million so far this year running about 6% under 1957. When its modernization program is finished, the company sees an even brighter earnings picture that may again restore its first rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Pygmy Among Giants | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...many ways the Harvard football picture could hardly be brighter than it is now. The Crimson is in remarkably good physical shape, and has just beaten a team as strong as any it will have to face all year. Its defense has seemed superb--allowing just one touchdown in the last three games. Its fiery little quarter-back, Charlie Ravenel, has greatly picked up offense that was too much given to sputterings and stallings in the early part of the season...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Football Squad Rated As Favorite Over Penn Today; Injuries Plague Quakers | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...latest set of apprehensive elders to make a study of U.S. college youth last week turned in a surprisingly optimistic report: the average student today is older, brighter and more serious than in past years, and the average college must hustle to keep up with the change. The report, They Come for the Best of Reasons, written by Columbia University Professor W. Max Wise for a panel of educators sponsored by the American Council on Education, sifts views and statistics on the present college generation. Highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Joe Knowledge | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...awry. Perhaps the producers decided not to fret over the script, thinking that the nub of Drink lay in the staging, in what that master of accelerating insanity, George Abbott, could pipe into a yarn of careening drunkenness. Director Abbott and his downer of Scotch, Tom Poston, constitute the brighter side of the occasion. But Drink to Me Only is not an occasion, is not often very bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 20, 1958 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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