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This charitable organization, apparently finished with widows and orphans, has turned its thoughts to matters nearer the heart of any good Junker. It has informed President Adenauer of the Western German State that what he really needs is one infantry division by June and an armored division within the next year...
...radioactive materials in rocks, have figured that the earth is about two billion years old. This week, in a report issued by the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Edinburgh's Professor Arthur Holmes had a new estimate. Two billion years, said Holmes, is a "conservative minimum." Something nearer 3,350,000,000 years, he added cautiously, "is unlikely to be seriously wrong...
...Nearer to the Threshold. It is not likely, Professor Steere notes dryly, that the situation will be remedied by a "representative committee on Protestant symbols." "Only those who have felt the central fire of the molten sun can capture its radiance in symbols that will focus the longing of others. It will come out of deeply moved souls who have felt and known our need, our poverty...
...spite of every surface indication to the contrary, there are prophets among us who see our catastrophic cultural situation in the West as bringing us nearer and nearer to the threshold of an age ... of Christian laymen permeating the world with an inward spiritual religion which would touch each mode of its life...
...million years old, they found that their magnetism pointed in an entirely different direction. The south-seeking ends of the magnetic particles were pointing downward as the needles of "dip circle" compasses do in the southern hemisphere. The ancient Maryland rocks acted magnetically as if they had been formed nearer to the southern magnetic pole (in Antarctica) than to the northern one (in Canada...