Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriously," he added later, "this coaching staff at Harvard is swell; in fact, there is none better...
Last week there was an unwonted scurry and bustle on the top floors of King William's palace. The reason was not the war panic swirling over Europe, but the fact that William Lawrence Bragg, having hardly settled down at Teddington, had been appointed to a newer and loftier post: Cavendish Professor at Cambridge University. "Cavendish Professor" means director of the Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics. This post, which Bragg takes over this week, is regarded- in England at least-as the world's top scientific...
...Fact is that both Mathematics for the Million and Science for the Citizen are not works of popularization at all, in the ordinary sense, but textbooks or reference books. The former is full of difficult mathematics, the latter of intricate analyses, complex charts and diagrams, formidable mathematical and chemical equations. Professor Hogben has even inserted lists of questions and problems at the ends of his chapters for those who take their learning hard...
...power of Evans' work," says Critic Lincoln Kirstein in an excited but penetrating commentary, "lies in the fact that he so details the effect of circumstances on familiar specimens that the single face, the single house, the single street, strikes with the strength of overwhelming numbers, the terrible cumulative force of thousands of faces, houses and streets." Photographer Evans himself likes some of his pictures because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered...
...were made to Miss Peter this year, Phelps said, but pointed out that many have to be rejected if the Dean's office reports that their standing is poor. Although 230 monitor posts are open, the number of attendance-takers is really much less than that, owing to the fact that that most of them make reports for more than one course...