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...would have been 40° from the predicted path, in 1875 90° away. Basis for the Lowell calculations was the fact that the path of Uranus was being warped by some outside influence which was attributed to the predicted planet. X, said Dr. Brown, is too small to exert such a pressure. Siding with Dr. Brown in the doubting column are: Dr. William Duncan MacMillan of University of Chicago, who maintains that X's path is hyperbolic, not elliptical; Professor H. E. Wood, astronomer for the South African Union, who gives X a size 1/30th that of Earth...
Miss Lowell is very much concerned with the place of poetry in a democratic society. "Imagination," she tells us, "is the root of all civilization," and poetry is needed to "exert its imaginative training upon youth." With this premise Miss Lowell developes some theories which contribute her share to the educational traditions of her family. She concludes the "there is one great fault in our educational systems today; they teach, but they do not train; and the one faculty without which no other can come to fruition is never really trained at all, for we cannot deny that imagination...
...seeds or nuts are shredded to a meal, crushed with giant hydraulic presses which exert 300 atmospheres. The cell walls are ruptured, out trickles the oil. But this is expensive...
...more than a quarter-century after he had begun, he elucidated a sunspot theory, modestly crediting its discovery to the 17th Century heretic Galileo Galilei. Sunspots, Father Ricard declared, exert a definite influence on weather conditions, cause tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, affect even the moods of animals. After observing sunspots, he forecast California's weather for long advance periods...
...Books," said Mr. Howe, "are measuring sticks of our progress, and will continue to exert an enormous influence in the shaping of American civilization. So it behooves every American to know what the nation itself is doing through books for that civilization...