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Watson said that a partial explanation of the housing shortage was that the Houses had not come through as expected. He added that "since the University cannot put more than 100 men into the Indoor Athletic Building, expansion seems to be the only way to handle the overflow...
Triumph. To the Latter-day Saints, who once expected the nations of the earth to rally unto them, and who are still fond of calling themselves "a peculiar people," these tangible triumphs constitute only a partial fulfillment of destiny. But, considered coldly, they seem almost incredible...
...Since we were flying northwest-roughly into the sunset-we saw whatever they were in at least partial light. We saw them clearly. We followed them in a northwesterly direction for about 45 miles. Finally the objects disappeared in a burst of speed. We were unable to tell whether they outsped us or disintegrated. We never were able to catch them in our DC-3. Our air speed at the time was 185 miles per hour...
...operate only in a living cell. But they differ greatly in size, looks and behavior. They also show astonishing individuality. Some are round, some shaped like rods, some have tails like tadpoles. A few, almost as complicated as bacteria, which are a higher form of life, even have partial enzyme systems to help digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza virus in man can exist only in the lining...
...there so many faithful Moslems? British Author R. V. C. Bodley, who lived many years among them, suggests this partial answer: in the illimitable nothingness of the desert or the oppressive dark of the jungle, without the distractions of Western civilization, men find the need for worship constant and pressing...