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...feeling over there that people are tired, drained of feeling'. . . . A business executive was walking on cardboard-patched soles for lack of a ration coupon. . .A tiny girl asked, when given a bit of coveted chocolate: 'Do I lick or do I bite?'. . . Factory workers faint around 11 a.m. for lack of adequate breakfasts. . . . 'In two weeks I never saw a piece of meat'. . . Seventy-five pounds of food she brought over prolonged the lives of ten persons...
...Into Space. Even as an apprentice astronomer, Hubble concentrated on the nebulae-the faint patches of light scattered among the stars. Some had been proved mere wraiths, irregular clouds of dust shining by reflected starlight. Others, more interesting, were globes, ellipses, open spirals like patterns of fire from great spinning pin wheels. When the brightest of these were photographed with powerful telescopes, they dissolved into vast congregations of faint stars, whose dimness suggested that they might be very far away. But astronomers, lacking a proper measuring stick, were not agreed. Some thought that the nebulae were comparatively near and small...
...plate, when Hubble develops it, will not look like much: only a few faint smudges of silver granules on a film of gelatin. By itself, the first photograph may prove little, but there will be many others. Added together, they may tell man things about his universe that have puzzled him since he came here to live...
...introduces, told a reporter that the music could have been written only by a "finished master." Next day a Boston critic referred to it as "the best since Copland's Third" Since Boston has had no premieres of U.S. symphonies since Aaron Copland's, that was faint praise indeed...
...religion, and gently but surely leads one to see that the history of civilization is but a special case of the history of a cosmos in which ideas can and sometimes do "persuade" the brute facts of life and experience to be harmonized, muted and ennobled. There is a faint but sure drive in things towards excellence which deserves to be encouraged, nursed, supported. We are civilized to the degree that we refuse to allow this bias forward excellence to be blocked by force or quieted by a dogmatic supposition that the richness of the ideal has already been exhausted...