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...last land dissolves upon the horizon, the sea assumes its elemental, immutable aspect. Ships seen upon it then most truly represent man's control over inanimate nature" if not over himself. President Hoover, 36 miles at sea off the Virginia Capes last week, had a chance to ponder such verities. Over the horizon from the north, looming bullet-grey in the brightening morning, moved four-fifths of the nation's fighting seapower. As an engineer Mr. Hoover had to admire. As a President with instincts toward creative civilization, who had just engaged to limit such power mutually with...
...instance, Dr. McLedge Moffetty, of Columbia University, has announced the results of "the most comprehensive survey ever made of the teaching profession." He has statistically studied the average prospective teacher. Let those who dare to doubt the miracles of modern questionnairing ponder his discoveries...
...last week, spoke smartly-tailored Newcomb Carlton, head of Western Union Telegraph Co., to the Interstate Commerce Committee of the U. S. Senate sitting to ponder national policy on communications, nerve of trade, nerve of war. Last month Owen D. Young of Radio Corp. had told the same Senate Committee that a merger of Radio Corp.'s wireless, Western Union's cables and International Telephone & Telegraph's wireless & cables was essential (TIME, Dec. 23). Argued Mr. Young: only by such a monopoly could U. S. communications compete with such monopolistic foreign communication systems as Britain's Cables & Wireless...
...possible to write a message on a pad at one's desk or bedside and have it instantaneously transmitted to the addressee anywhere on earth. No trained artist, he has been stirred, by Radio Corp.'s development from a communications business into an amusement business, to ponder the potentialities of radio as the basis of a new national art form, especially for a new generation unhampered by old art forms. Never a moralist, he has said: "In no other profession [besides Business], not excepting the ministry and the law, is the need for wide information, broad sympathies...
...years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen's memento, still preserved in the old house, and to ponder her epitaph while his 20th Century fiancee leaves him, both of them disconsolate...