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...spite of this lack of agreement on forms of the encounter theory, modern astronomers have favored the theory in general. But last week it looked as though the encounter theory was about ready for the scrap heap, along with the nebular hypothesis of Laplace...
Stones for Bread is the dead simple, dead earnest story of two brothers, all but subhuman garbage heap derelicts, who live near a Kentucky town. Such little plot as there is develops in the death of one brother, of a dog, of a mule; in the chance hour's visit of a sleek woman who tears brother Martin's childish heart to bits. In the main, though, the book is merely a play-by-play description of the dim mental processes of the brothers-perhaps the most authentic imbeciles in U. S. letters-and of their borderline methods...
Lean, grey Dr. Ernest William Barnes, Anglican Bishop of Birmingham and one of England's great liberal Christians, recalled the words of St. Paul (in Romans 12:20): Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. In the Upper House of the Convocation, Dr. Barnes moved that the British Government be urged to relax the blockade so that foodstuffs could enter Germany. Sternly His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury replied: "Germany can provide food for its population. We must leave...
...earned. This decision Mr. Whiteford had seen coming because he well knew that SEC was more concerned about Associated's operating and sub-holding companies (with outstanding securities of $539,139,000 in the hands of the public) than it was about Associated at the top of the heap...
...methods of treatment have usually started with great fanfare, and landed on the medical dust heap within three years. One British researcher advised his colleagues to "make haste to use a new remedy before it is too late...