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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine months plus 149 days (the period a soul spends in purgatory) after the death of a Grand Lama, priests throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha...
...remember now that on three occasions I found a copy of the--lying on the stairs. It did not occur to me at the time that it was mine, although I borrowed it for the breakfast and returned it thereafter to the same spot, Later one of those days I saw the maid throw it down the incinerator...
Cheering last week for the expected victory of the Stalin regime at the polls was Premier Prince Konoye of Japan. "If the results of the Russian election support the regime, trouble will not occur," beamed the Prince. "But if Stalin is upset it is impossible to say what may happen." Despite constant Soviet & Communist press uproar against "Fascist Japan," the Prince seemed confident that such help as thrifty Stalin gives China will be as inadequate as that he has given the Spanish Leftists. Soviet bombers arrived in China in considerable numbers and went into action last week...
...modest Dr. Anderson discovered the positive electron in 1932 and is now a Nobel Prizeman. In 1934, in an inconspicuous footnote, he hinted at the possible existence of a new particle. The dilemma which confronted him then was a choice between theory and observation. He was studying electrons which occur in cosmic rays. Such electrons are supposed to behave according to the Bethe-Heitler theory, which ascribes certain penetrating powers to electrons of certain velocities. Dr. Anderson's data showed that electrons did conform up to energies of 300,000,000 volts. Above that energy level there appeared...
...problem which the University will do well to recognize. Several hundred urchins of these neighborhoods spend their free time in conducting a sort of guerilla warfare against the University at large, and if their looting parties, their brick-throwing escapades and merry bonfires persist, some accident is likely to occur that will make Harvard authorities repent of their indifference...