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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief pooh-pooher of the theory last week was Astronomer Charles Clayton Wylie of the University of Iowa. His big objection: contraterrene material zooming earthward would unite with air, "releasing energy such that a gram of meteorite and air would produce an explosion equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of nitroglycerin. Obviously a meteorite made of contraterrene material would be blown to bits . . . high in the upper air. So the assumption ... is impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Add Theories | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Runners-up for the kudos championship, with three honorary degrees apiece : Radio Pundit Raymond Gram Swing : Lafayette, Muhlenberg, Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos Champions | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...animals and their organs illustrate the physiological theory on which Dr. Crile has been working, not too secretly, for a long time. The theory: in all animals except man and the higher apes, the rate of metabolism is almost directly proportional to brain weight: 12.15 calories per gram of brain each 24 hours. Compared with his body, man's brain is larger than any other animal's, thus puts a greater strain on his organic activities. So such ills as high blood pressure, exophthalmic goiter, diabetes are almost unique in civilized man, rare in aborigines and beasts. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Physiological Circus | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...CharlesWilliam J. Moss Natalie Gale, BeaverWilliam L. Nutting Polly Palmer, WheatonWilliam C. Palson Priscilla Tapley, SmithWillard Platt Patricia Elliot, WellesleyBroaddus Robinson Patricia Drew, BeaverO. Glenn Saxon, Jr. Bobsie Deming, The Day SchoolErwin H. Schell Alice Minot, CambridgeRichard D. Solo Helen Salters, BrooklineEdward B. Stevens Andy Johnson, Miss Wheeler'sPeter Gram Swing Patricia Lee, SmithFenton Taylor, Jr. Eleanor Root, New YorkAndrew W. Welch, Jr. Barbara Kelly, EmmanuelWELD HALLHenry Applebach Louise StuartElibu H. Berman Muriel Goldman, Hartford, Conn.Frederic H. Bird Ann Tyrrell, Colby Junior CollegeJerry M. Brown Vurginia Buchser, Fort Monroe, Va.Richard L. Davies Barbara Jane Cook, WellesleyThomas M. Griffin Ann Roberts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 COUPLES TO ATTEND JUBILEE | 5/23/1941 | See Source »

Among the other prominent persons who regularly broadcast over the station are Raymond Gram Swing, Fulton Lewis, Jr., and Hendrik Wilhelm Van Loon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Professors Broadcast to European Countries Through WRUL | 5/2/1941 | See Source »

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