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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definition, a googolplex is the number "1 followed by a googol of zeros," a googol being equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Reader Sweet mend his mathematics: a googol is not equal to 10². Ten squared is simply 100. Reader Sweet's googolplex is not a googolplex but merely a googol squared. By using a series of ascending powers, a googolplex could be written in comparatively small space; written straight out, it would, as TIME said, stretch further than the visible universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...University feels that most men whose minds are equal to the tests of research work are capable of becoming competent teachers; the Committee is in substantial agreement with this view. It agrees also that a good teacher cannot necessarily become a good research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Report on Teaching Advancement Declares Stress on Publishing May Turn Harvard into Mail School | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

Although Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Navy and Harvard comprise the league, outstanding mermen from other eastern universities have been invited to compete. However, each entrant must have turned in a time for his event equal or below the qualifying standards set up by league officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eastern Swim Stars Will Compete for Intercollegiate Pool Titles at Harvard | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

...cost." According to Sewell Avery, building represents a wide cross section of all U. S. industry and therefore will not revive until business as a whole regains confidence. In Gypsum's case, January and February sales were 25% under last year and the company is therefore unlikely to equal the $5,400,000 it made in 1937. This made Chairman Avery very bitter. Turning lecturer in true Rooseveltian style, he too presented a price chart, but he held it upside down. Snapped he: "It's the influence of this Government business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Plastered President | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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