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...could actually be introduced into the American governmental system without grave disturbances. A National Board of Strategy to plan and correlate industrial enterprises would cut sharply across the duties and prerogative of existing American Institutions. When one considers how strongly those who have those duties and prerogatives will cling to them, buttressed by the system of which they are part, it is difficult to share Mr. Thomas' conviction that the change could be made without violence, especially in a country which, as he himself says, has a long tradition of violence...
...forever stirring for something better and sometimes, unknowingly, we cling to straws. We have ideas--we have opinions--and after--what? Deeds are the fruit of thought and we live in deeds, not years. Radcliffe Daily...
BROTHERS-L. A. G. Strong-Knobi ($2.50). , Along the rocky shores of the Western Highlands live hardy fishermen who catch lobsters in their naked hands, make Scotch moonshine in the veiling mists. With barnacle-like fervor they cling to the briny customs of their fathers. Silent (when sober) almost as clams, they are also prone to stew in their own juice. Peter Macrae is clever, his younger brother Fergus is strong. In all useful pursuits, fishing, seal-hunting, Fergus outstrips his brother. Peter hates him for his open disposition, his drunken glees with Captain Aeneas M'Grath, a roisterous...
...Recently Professor Walther Bothe of Giessen, Germany, bombarded the element beryllium with alpha particles. Something happened to the alpha particles. The particles contained four units of positive electricity (protons) and two of negative electricity (electrons) when they crashed into the beryllium. Two protons of an alpha particle seemed to cling to the nucleus of a beryllium atom (thereby theoretically transmuting that atom of beryllium into an atom of carbon). The particle's other two protons and the two electrons seemed changed into what Professor Bothe considered an artificial gamma ray, which like a light ray is an electromagnetic phenomenon...
...Crimson's revamped team played inspired basketball to build up a lead of 15 to 10 in the first half and to cling of its slender lead throughout the greater part of the final period. However, with four minutes left to play. Columbia knotted the count at 21-21 and scored the winning points to maintain its undefeated record...