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...University of Chicago's presses last week came two blue-covered pamphlets whose importance to the present and future progress of science and scientific philosophy was belied by their size and price (75 pages and 59 pages; $1 each). The title of the first was Encyclopedia and Unified Science; of the second, Foundations of the Theory of Signs. The two are forerunners of 18 more to be published by August 1939. The first 20 pamphlets, comprising two "volumes," are to be the starting point for other volumes. Editor-in-chief of the project is Otto Neurath...
...article you try to tell the world that the part of Csech coutry where the provoking nasi live belong to Germany. You better borogh an Encyclopedia or some book of History and study the truth before you print such nonsence stories. Or we will think you work for Nasi. Please remember this: that part of Csechoslovakia never belong to Germany althou they wish it is theirs for almost 1000 years. The sudetan German are not really German but bough Csechs made into German. And what a Germans. They make more trouble for Csech goverment than thouse shmutzig Teutons. Henlein their...
...please look in Encyclopedia next time for there is 40,000 teuton...
Gargantua is a big boy but a Dempsey left hook landing on his stomach might figuratively tear the poor animal in two. . . . He didn't spend years doing bending and mat exercises. A man has 24 ribs. Your encyclopedia will tell you that a gorilla has but 13. Between the ribs, below the breastbone, there are nerve centres. If they are shocked the shock travels to the spine, temporarily causing paralysis. The ribs, and well developed muscles between the ribs, protect these nerve centres. Twenty-four ribs are much more protection than...
...payroll: Poet Conrad Aiken, for example, who wrote the memorable description of Deerfield, Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children of Strangers, Fabulous New Orleans), whose guide to New Orleans was complicated by the difficulty of writing about the city's famed red-light district, without giving names and addresses. For Arizona the State director...