Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground by granting him his sweeping generalization of the classless society. But it is impossible to concede to him that such a society is so easy of attainment. Mr. Conant must be over-impressed with the importance of his profession if he believes that education is a force powerful enough to go far in annihilating caste barriers. It seems necessary--even if it is trite--to remind him that equality of ability and equality of training do not mean equality of opportunity. Economic power still continues to be a decisive factor in the determination of position...
...German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast and one in Norway. Attacking force, according to the British: 50 planes; according to an excited Norwegian fishing boat captain...
...condition of France's Air Force is that she has bought from the U. S. planes which this country had already improved upon. One of France's top fighters is the Curtiss P-36, of which she bought 200. Its 275-300 m. p. h. are not enough. Its air-cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed that it even outfights...
...experiments. In a typical experiment she divided 25 mice into five groups. Four groups were fed minute amounts of sulfapyridine, varying from one to eight milligrams. The fifth group got no medicine at all. Half an hour after the drug was given, each mouse was inoculated with enough Hemophili to kill him 100 times over. Results: 1) all the unprotected mice died; 2) "no mouse died which received eight milligrams of the drug"; 3) the number of hours the other mice lived "was directly proportional to the amount of drug administered...
...that St. Peter, or the Devil (as the case may be), can't give Alexander Dumas a short vacation from his Life Eternal, just long enough for him to drop in at the University and see what United Artists have done with his adventure story, "The Man with the Iron Mask." He would be well-pleased...