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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house these photographs, which now comprise a 500,000-plate history of the heavens for the last half-century, the fire-proof Astrophysical building was established in Cambridge in 1931. This pictorial library, largest of its kind in the world, has proved an invaluable aid in plotting the future courses of celestial bodies...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: College Observatory Slates Four-Day Centennial Celebration AS U.S. Scientists Gather to Honor Astronomic Leadership | 12/6/1946 | See Source »

...fact that no deity of any kind has ever, in any way, made himself unmistakably known to everybody in every generation, amounts, I submit, to positive proof that there is no such being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Time for Atheism | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Proof of the trend away from the study of Arts, Letters, and Philosophy during the last 17 years was shown conclusively last week when Provost Buck released a series of statistics on the number of concentrators in each area in the years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social and Natural Sciences Boom Since 1929 While Arts-Letters Fade | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...each voter left the polls he dipped the little finger of his right hand into a green fluid. That was to keep him from voting twice. The creation of one Dr. Roberto Finol of Maracaibo, the green dye was supposed to be proof against soap, acid or anything for at least a couple of days. Venezuelans read the inscription on the bottle-". . . to guarantee universal suffrage"-and submitted willingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Democracy Is Green | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...overwhelming number of Harvard men flock to the dorms on Shepard Street each night. This is proof that too much is said about Harvard's supposedly unpleasant attitude towards Radcliffe. What is of more importance and less discussed is the girls' apparently unhealthy attitude about...

Author: By Muriel MICHALOVER Radcliffe, | Title: Cliffe Dwellers View Co-ed Policy | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

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