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...stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress in 1922 at Rome. Since then it has met in England. The Netherlands, the U. S., once every three or four years. Last week it wound up its fifth congress...
...Became abruptly interested in President Roosevelt when Conservative Thomas Levy demanded that His Majesty's Government act to protect "from the partial control of a foreign government" such British public utilities as are controlled by U. S. holding companies now controlled in turn...
...scheme tentatively announced by Dr. Bock indicates that he recognizes the need for a radical reorganization of the entire system. To undergraduates who have suffered the privations of Stillman Infirmary, the partial elimination of this antiquated monstrosity is a welcome innovation...
Giving tired politicos scant rest, Premier Laval forced them to work with him all day, drafting an emergency-powers law much more limited in scope than had previously been asked. Partial victory came when the Chamber Finance Committee approved the text. Then Premier Laval went straight to the Chamber at 6 p. m., paid no heed to his frigid reception without cheers, asked the suspicious Deputies to approve a bill of one single article reading thus...
...slackening our pace, or bearing it intermittently; by avoiding excessive specialization thereby lessening our dependence on others, and by developing our knowledge of facts and wisdom in applying these facts, and by developing a philosophy and a faith to take the place of that which our increased but still partial knowledge has shaken or destroyed...