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Cartright did not return to Carnegie Tech. By the process of painfully rehabilitating himself to a silent world he could never again see, he traveled through Europe and the Orient. Today he appears before the microphones of radio stations KFAB and KOIL, Omaha, Neb., twice daily to interpret international affairs, though he cannot see to read or hear his voice. He keeps abreast of the news by reading with one finger the lips of his secretary. On the air he talks from Braille notes, speaks clearly and without hesitation, and stops when his fifteen minutes are up by feeling...
...were urging them to boycott the first election under the new Constitution and make it unworkable, the Marquess of Linlithgow was not uttering a platitude but making a particularly crucial appeal when he keynoted with Scottish straightforwardness: "Trust me-I will trust you." King of Kings. In the Orient many a peewee potentate styles himself...
...looking at the matter is that only 14% of the people of British India have the vote.* The entire country is so politically preadolescent that to be moving in India toward heeding the voice of the people or letting them decide anything at all is to move, for the Orient, fast. The Chinese people have no effective suffrage and in Japan masterful forces of Dictatorship in the name of the Emperor have made Japanese elections a mockery today. The new written Constitution of India is hundreds of years behind the unwritten Constitution of the United Kingdom which features...
Willy Harinet, Lecturer at Frankfort University, Germany, whose field is the history of natural sciences, especially astronomy among the peoples of the Orient, the Near East, and Central America, will again be lecturer on the History of Science. Dr. Harinet is included in the faculty members giving courses in the new doctorate field "History of Science and Learning Infliated last year by President James B. Conant...
...Yale professor, and it described the wanderings of an anonymous narrator from Persia to China, with careful and realistic descriptions of the extraordinary and unreal adventures he encountered on the way. These adventures ranged from a prison escape to casual encounters with the passionate overnight beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book had its source in the author's ability to make the Continent of Asia seem somewhat like a small town, filled with the same gossipy characters turning up on every corner, with the same old feuds and underground activities that a stranger might...