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...Martin, Charles Eaton of New Jersey, and Harold Knutson of Minnesota would assume leadership. Martin, who would replace Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the House, is on record as opposing Lend-Lease, the draft, and its extension, while advocating a general reduction of taxes for a government whose economic realm has been tremendously enlarged by national emergency. Facing Martha Sharp in the 14th District here, he has opposed workable trade agreements, price-control, and even a federal program of hot lunches for school children. His zealous financial pruning stopped, however, when he cast a ballot for the Wood-Rankin...
...School, then a completely separate entity. With the incorporation of the School into the newly-formed Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1890 under President Eliot, the last real distinction between the two degrees died and the present anomaly was born. Science began to take its place in the realm of knowledge, President Lowell bestowed B. S.'s on English concentrators and A.B.'s on physicists, and the late Dean Briggs aphorized on the B.S. that it showed "not a knowledge of science, but an ignorance of Latin...
...cozy room with a fireplace, bright red & green hunting prints and a volume of Burke's Landed Gentry. Like many a Big Business headquarters, it looks like the hideout of a country squire. This is the home of The Aviation Corp., once as fabulous a flyer in the realm of high finance as the Great Roc itself...
...Report. Luckily for the ultra-physicists, the U.S. Army, hell-bent for high-altitude guided missiles, was cooperating. Last week the Army told good news. A German V-2 rocket, roaring 100 miles above New Mexico, had carried elaborate instruments to the realm of the cosmic rays. Twenty miles up, the effect of the rays was 300 times as strong as on the earth; 20 miles higher it fell off again...
Professor Roscoe Pound is one of the most eminent jurists of the generation. But Professor Pound, by his own admission, discusses matters outside the realm of the Law with "individual imbecility." Having recently completed a legal code for the Chinese Central Government, Professor Pound returned to this country and dropped minor words of wisdom that cannot be considered imbecilic, but can certainly be tossed in with the "inside dope" brought back by scores of junketing Congressmen, visiting firemen, and just plain tourists...