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Because a couple of hundred years ago Paul Revere rode to spread the alarm that the English were coming, and because tomorrow there will be rowed a great race against the English, let all be warned: No CRIME shall disturb the peace...
Sunspots & Planets. For several years Nelson studied sunspots with his telescope, but failed to find any practical way of using them to forecast magnetic storms. About three years ago, inspired by suggestions of Yale's late Climatologist Ellsworth Huntington, he turned to the planets. His theory: the planets disturb the sun, and the sun disturbs electrical conditions in the earth's atmosphere...
...Stanky's distracting wigwagging tactics around second base last season prompted a special ruling from National League President Ford Frick: "Umpires have been instructed to eject any player who engages in antics . . . designed or intended to annoy or disturb opposing batsmen...
Others didn't think the partial change would disturb things. "As long as they do the work, we'll be happy," said James Yule of Kirkland House. Fritz Rau, at Lowell, thought the porters would be "all right." He hopes they can be depended on as much as the maids, whom he feels are "steadier." Rau had students working under him before, as janitors. "Their work was good," he said, "when they worked. The trouble was that they'd often decide not to come...
Prayer & Meditation. With this, Tibet's national independence quietly evaporated. Demoralized by the loss of their fortress and rumors of huge Chinese armies, the population of 3,500,000 waited helplessly for their conquerors. The Reds, anxious not to disturb their future victims in India, superseded military operations with a thorough propaganda campaign of "friendship and peaceful intentions." By December local agents had raised Mao's five-starred flag over the old Chinese residency in Lhasa...