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...Russians will do either of two things with Finland, now that they have her, for I don't believe that Finland will offer any real resistance. Either they will incorporate their new not completely engulf Finland...
More conventional in his choice of genius, John Cowper Powys finds no difficulty in swallowing Nietzsche, Milton, Poe, Dickens, Proust, all at one gulp. Of all literary "appreciations" his are the most fulsome, the most ardent, the most consciously designed to engulf readers with a vicarious sense of cosmic genius. And hence Powys' book is the more likely to be read, since, like Durant's Story of Philosophy, it enables readers to enjoy the classics without reading them...
...River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
Last week Antares dropped to second place as news came out of University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. of a stellar monster four billion miles through the middle. If its centre were placed at the hub of the solar system it would engulf all the planets up to the last and most remote pair, Neptune and Pluto...
Sunspots appear to be gigantic whirlpools of gas erupting at the solar surface. Many are big enough to engulf dozens of planets the size of Earth. They wax and wane in cycles averaging a little over eleven years, although some intervals have been as short as eight years, others as long as 16. The cause of sunspots is not known, but it is suspected that periodic shifts in the gravitational pulls of the planets may have something to do with it. The whole sun seems to be disturbed by active spots; more heat is radiated by the sun at such...