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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light years -about 25 trillion miles. In 1915 Dr. Robert T. A. Innes of Johannesburg discovered, by parallax observations,* that a faint star near Alpha Centauri was only 4.16 light-years away. For 23 years, up to last week, that star, appropriately called Proxima Centauri, held rank as the No. 1 solar neighbor. Last week, from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, it was announced that another faint star, Wolf 424† appears to be only 3.7 light-years distant. This is so close that a train traveling a thousand miles a day would get there...
Typical is the case of S. K. Timoshenko, Second-Rank Red Army Commander (Major General). Last summer he was Assistant Commander at Kiev of the Ukraine Military District in western Russia, adjoining Poland. In the autumn he was appointed Commander in the Caucasus in Russia's south. By winter he was shunted to Kharkov, the industrial centre of the Ukraine, and today he is back at Kiev, now as full Commander-four shifts in less than a year, and at each shift but one Timoshenko has replaced a Red Army officer who was "purged...
...Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
...Thurstone's tests furnished scientific evidence that, while people who rank high in one mental ability are likely to score well in the others, frequently an individual may be strong in one faculty, weak in another. Thus people of superior intellect sometimes have poor memory. An individual may have a good memory for faces and a poor one for names, or vice versa. In the one case he ranks low in ability with words; in the other, he is deficient in visual imagery...
...initiated chiefly by Mr. Cooper. Not without qualms, A. P. directors have approved comic strips, features, Wirephoto and a general broadening and lightening of the old straight news formula. This week, however, the modernizing efforts of Boss Cooper and the A. P. Board of Directors were stopped by a rank & file revolt. Led by smooth, earnest Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher...