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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congratulate you on your recognition of science fiction in your review of A Martian Odyssey [TIME, May 30] ? It is seldom that an S-F book receives mention in publications not exclusively devoted to this field, even though interest in science fiction has been increasing at a rapid rate...
Unrealistic. The pound exchange rate is now fixed by Britain at $4.03. This rate has long been unrealistic in several senses. The easiest comparison is with free exchange rates in other countries. The pound now sells legally for $3.15 in New York and for $2.92 on the free market in Paris. These bargain pounds, however, cannot be legally taken into Britain (except for a ?5 tourist allowance), and cannot be used in open commercial transactions for British goods. A much better comparison supporting the argument that $4.03 is an unrealistic rate is the fact that $4.03 will buy more...
Bolles uses a variation of the Conibear-Washington style of rowing. It depends on a low stroke rate with a maximum of power. In fact, Bill Curwen, Harvard's stroke, maintains the lowest rate in the east today, varying it very little from 31 except at the racing start of the race and the sprint at the finish...
Blattner, Robert James of 3518 North Murray Avenue, Shorewood. Wis.; Shorewood High. Hoya, Thomas William of 1825 East Beverly Road. Milwaukee; Shorewood High, Shorewood. Rate, Henry Adams of 321 Lexington Avenue Iowa City, la.; Iowa City High. Snell, John Edward of 1291 12th Street. Marton, la.; Marion High...
...mirror and a 48-in. correcting plate. It takes 14 in.-by-14 in. pictures that cover a square of sky as wide as twelve moons placed edge to edge in a row. The 200-in. sees only half the diameter of a single moon. At that rate, it would take the 200-in. about 5,000 years to observe the whole...