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Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Johauncs Brahms' death, his "A German Requiem" will highlight the pension concert. Serge Koussevitsky will conduct the orchestra and chorus in the well-known work, which will feature James Pease and Frances Yeend in the baritono and zoprano roles...
Luckily, many stars are eclipsed by the moon. When this happens, the star does not vanish instantaneously. Instead, it makes the moon cast, for one-fiftieth of a second, a ribbed shadow of bright-and-dark "diffraction bands." By measuring these, the star's disc can be measured. But the bands are 30 feet apart, and they race past a telescope's lens at more than 1,000 miles per hour. No photographic plate or observer's eye is big enough or fast enough to catch them...
Meanwhile, five classes will hold reunions in conjunction with the Associated Harvard Clubs' doings. These include the sixtieth, fiftieth, fortieth, thirty-fifty, and thirtieth reunion classes...
...says Jaakko Mikkola, Harvard track coach, "we just have to win that meet with Yale Saturday. That's the way I feel and I'm sure that's the way the team feels too. Although feeling is high in Cambridge that Yale has as much chance of winning, the fiftieth dual meet between the two rivals, this afternoon at 2:30 in the Stadium, as Harvard does of dropping intercollegiate football. Mikkola is making no concessions to his own outfit...
...conditions, after all, were aimed "at the restoration of multilateral trade, which is a system upon which British commerce essentially depends." Lord Beaverbrook had argued that Britain could get along by trading in her own sterling area. Keynes's crushing comment: "I have never heard of statistics one-fiftieth part so phoney...