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After that his troubles were over. When blind Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost retired in 1932, Struve succeeded him as Yerkes' director. His valuable and multifarious work there includes discovery of the biggest star known to man-an almost transparent body four billion miles across which like a monstrous ghost accompanies the well-known star Epsilon Aurigae (TIME...
...Yale News" has exposed the whole monstrous situation during past weeks in columns which, if placed end to end, would probably reach from Portland to Tallahassee. With the self mortifying zeal of Simon Stylites (since the News is in the middle of the corrupt business which it is trying to clean up) it has told of Yale's perverted passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies...
...only trouble with Sunday supplement folk tales about deadly trees and monstrous flowers which trap, devour and digest human beings is that they are as untrue as they sound. But it is true that the plant kingdom takes a mild, sporadic revenge on the plant-eating animal kingdom by arranging for certain plants to trap, devour and digest insects, worms, larvae, tiny fish, Crustacea-even birds, mice, frogs. Last week Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History published a booklet, Carnivorous Plants, by Botanist Sophia Prior, describing these plants and their predatory procedures...
First requisite of a picture with a moral is that it make its moral seem important. Second is that it make its moral seem :rue. Boy Slaves fails in truth because its bad characters are not human but monstrous. ". . . one-third of a nation" fails in importance because its characters do not seem worth bothering about. And in addition to being inherently feeble, both pictures suffer from amateurish acting, writing and direction...
...lovers of realism break ground and run for the affectionate softnesses of rosy romanticism. Some have termed it "a poetic idyll," some "stark" or "tragic" or "harrowing" or have used infinite combinations of all these terms. Whatever its effect on individuals, the play tells the story of Lennie, a monstrous halfwit, who absent-mindedly crushes the life out of small rodents because he likes to feel their fur; before the final act has run its macabre course, Lennie has so perfected the fine art of strong arm caressing that he smothers the boss's daughter in a pile...