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...dogmatic school operates in quite a different manner. . . . He starts out from ideas that have arisen primarily in his own brain, or from arbitrary definitions of relationships between symbols. ... In so far as [his formulae] are found to be in accord with experience, he underlines this agreement with the greatest of emphasis, and makes it appear as though the results of experience have been established . . . only by virtue of his theory." If the dogmatic theorist runs up against experimental contradictions, he takes refuge in doubting the validity of the experiments...
...Boeing's 307, DC-4 is the first commercial transport plane with a pressurized cabin. Its passenger compartment will be kept at low-altitude air pressure for passengers' comfort while the plane flies high, above bad weather. Overweather flight has been one of commercial aviation's greatest developments in the last decade, and Douglas planes have taken the lead in making a high curve the shortest traveling distance between any two points in the U. S. DC-4 will heighten the curve, shorten the distance. Without pressurized cabins, planes now fly as high as 14,000 feet...
...committee recommended that the schools provide much more art, music and other esthetic outlets, that they offer children a fair balance between failure and success. Greatest need, however, is unworried, better-balanced teachers, preferably married...
SHANGHAI--Tuesday -- The whole eastern half of China's great fortified Lung-Hai line, defending Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Sheck's provisional capital at Hankow, was collapsing today under terrific blows from four Japanese armies. All advices agreed the Chinese were losing the greatest battle of the war and that the key city of Suchow-Fu would be fully occupied by the Japanese during this week
Although a canny Eli crew captured the 150-lb. title in the Joe Wright Cup rogatta at Princeton last Saturday, it was Coach Bort Haines' polished Crimson eights which gained the greatest honors of the day by smashing course records on the Lake Carnegie. Honley distance...