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...Communists' discomfort, the government announced on the day following the election that it planned to adopt soon "a fundamental policy of outlawing" the Communist Party...
Housemaster David M. Little '18 said that the unlimited system, which operated after 6:20 p.m. each night except Wednesday, had caused overcrowding and discomfort...
...Lampoon," has jumped leagues to write the best story of the lot. Called "Ronny," it describes with understanding the gap between the emotions of a small boy and his mother. Far different and nearly as good is Sherman Funk's "The Way to Travel." Funk rehashes the told, bruising discomfort of two squads in an Army six-by-six truck. His description of discomfort is no more vivid than that in a dozen war novels, but it is remarkable to find the "Advocate" writing on the level of the good war novel, and Funk's episode is bright and quietly...
Around the machines drifts a dense fog of mathematics, a sort of intellectual tear gas to discomfort the nonmathematical. The machines speak and understand a special language of numbers. These are not "decimal," as ordinary numbers are, built on a base of ten with digits running from 0 to 9. They are "binary" numbers with a base of two, and have only two digits: 0 and 1. In this style of arithmetic, 0 is 0; 1 is i. But 2 is written...
...prevent both discomfort and danger, Dr. Peckham advises, wear proper sunglasses-"the darker the better." Manufacturers are satisfied if their glasses cut out one-third of the light rays; some ophthalmologists now suggest cutting out as much as 80% to 90%. (The Navy issued some sunglasses which cut out 88%.) Dark glasses need not make it harder to see objects in bright light; they may help when much of the light is unnecessary. Advertising boasts of filtering out "harmful rays," says Dr. Peckham, are meaningless. Under ordinary conditions, he continues, infrared and ultraviolet rays, both invisible, make little difference; visible...