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Last week Dr. Lawrence reported that, by whirling deutons (heavy hydrogen nuclei) between the poles of his magnet, he had induced radioactivity in copper, heaviest of the dozens of elements in which this behavior has been observed. In so doing he observed a curious effect which he could only interpret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians in Washington | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

There is a humour in this plan that cannot but be welcome to those of us who have been wondering how nine million unemployed can be loaded back on to a groaning industrial wagon without the immediate expansion, or inflation, of credit. We can issue for a moment from the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

Following closely upon the adoption here of the pre-examination respite, this program of the Yale authorities indicates the trend of though in modern American education. Generally guided by English models whose worth has been proved through centuries as Oxford and Cambridge America is gradually arriving at a same and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD MOVEMENT | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

WITH the overshoe era upon us and snow upon the overshoe era, fires crackle in grates all too cognizant of Dickensian tradition in their inconstancy of warmth and books often encumber the knees of gentle souls who prefer their own lamp light to the colder luminaries of the winter heavens...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: ODDLY ENOUGH, by David McCord; Washburn and Thomas Cambridge, 1926. $2.50. | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

On the contrary in fact, those educated derelicts, which encumber the modern world, are just another of those burdensome heritages which an impeccable Victorian Age has dumped upon that modern world. In particular one may cite the scholars of Germany, whom the President of Columbia mentions as being among the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR DEGENERATE AGE | 12/1/1923 | See Source »

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