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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose dream came true was 72-year-old Dr. John Lorenzo Dow Roberts, who settled in Monterey 40 years ago. Many of his patients lived along the rugged coastal mountains reached only by difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel...
...winter and the darkening of the "canals" in summer (possible evidence of vegetation), astronomers have long been convinced that there is very little water on the "red planet." The amount of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere appears to be less than 5% of that on earth. It is difficult to measure the planet's water by spectrographic means because of spectrum lines caused by vapor in the Earth's air. Last spring Astronomers Walter Sydney Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory had a good chance to finesse this difficulty. Mars was then approaching Earth...
...saying that none but "those who used flagrant means of tax avoidance'' need be uneasy about the coming inquisition. Secretary Morgenthau in a monotone told the committee that nowadays there are 45,000 tax lawyers and accountants, specialists in saving their clients taxes, that often it is difficult to tell the difference "between tax avoidance which is proper and tax-evasion which is supposed to be immoral" until after a long legal battle. Rich men have split their personalities by setting up alter egos in the form of corporations and creating losses in some to balance profits...
...Crusader Katterfeld started a little magazine called Evolution. He solicited and published sound, straightforward articles from reputable scientists, avoided the wilder forms of abuse but exposed and excoriated antiscientific pressure wherever he found it. In 1932 he found the struggle to keep Evolution going too difficult, decided to stop publication for a while and lay the foundations for revival by a campaign of vigorous field work. His three daughters and two sons, although sympathizing and helping, were inclined to laugh at his "pipe dream." But Katterfeld persisted...
...conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." There have been few periods in the history of this republic, I am inclined to think, when it has been more difficult to follow the injunction,-- "be not conformed to this world." Of course, I am not referring to trivial matters. I am not discussing external modes of behavior--manners and social customs. Superficial non-conformists are often spiritual slaves to a special set of ritualistic dogmas. A considerable degree of uniformity among a group of people in regard to everyday behavior...