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...sense least understood (not counting humor) is the sense of smell. Its subtleties baffle scientists and enrich perfume compounders. Last week Yale's Drs. Lloyd H Beck and Walter R. Miles, after long and thoughtful scratching of their scientific noses, presented the National Academy of Sciences with a brand-new theory. The nose, they said, is not, as commonly believed, a laboratory which identifies odors by chemical analysis. More likely, its smeller is an instrument or measuring infra-red (heat) rays absorbed by odorous vapors...
...summon us to a holy war against Russia than to solve the problems involved in establishing economic justice and world order. ... An ideology cannot be suffocated by poison gas nor demolished by atom bombs. Ideas are conquered by better ideas whose truth has been revealed in practices that enrich personality...
...years, British farmers have resisted him. Last summer Farmer Dennis had a poor wheat crop which he plowed under. The local County Agricultural Committee then ordered him to sow the same 20-acre field to a catch crop of mustard, which would also be plowed under while green to enrich the soil. County Agricultural Committees, consisting of local farmers and Ministry of Agriculture officials, have broad powers to instruct farmers what to sow and produce. But Dennis claimed that mustard would not thrive because the field was infested with charlock (wild mustard, a common agricultural pest detested by grain farmers...
...party politics is laced with corruption in China, Chen feels no personal shame. He has never used his public position to enrich himself. U.S. Ambassador Leighton Stuart says: "I defy anyone to prove that Chen Li-fu is corrupt." Nobody ever has. Says Chen: "The real problem is not corruption but the economic crisis springing out of our long period of war, just as the American Civil War gave birth to a period of low public morality. Confucius said, 'Without a full stomach one cannot speak of high principles.' . . ." Chen adds: "When man's natural desires...
...project of a vast emigration must save from spiritual and material misery many unfortunates to whom an impoverished Europe no longer offers the elementary possibilities of life and work. The realization of such a project will not only serve to enrich Argentina . . . but also will write in the annals of this clouded and unhappy postwar period a beautiful page of spiritual and corporal mercy...