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...touched Radcliffe, although indirectly. McNutt's appointment makes a draft of women easily within the realm of possibility. But more immediate effects are already seen. Early next year a WAVE post-grad school is expected to squeeze onto the Radcliffe grounds, giving supply training to follow indoctrination at Smith. Extra-curricularly the 'Cliffe has of course its full quota of Committees and Boards, and such courses as engineering may soon be added to the curriculum, which contains only Harvard courses and omits just a few. Radcliffe would as soon think of a home economics course as Harvard would...
...only in the realm of supply, but in its counterpart-interdicting the enemy's lines-the U.S. Navy has not given Archer Vandegrift the support he needs. The Japanese have landed troops on Guadalcanal almost at will; they have shelled the U.S. positions from...
When he had successively materialized the Hindu gods, Ramakrishna turned to other religions. In 1874 he tried Christianity. "Breaking through the barriers of creed and religion, he entered a new realm of ecstasy. Christ possessed his soul. For three days he did not set foot in the Kali temple. On the fourth day ... he saw coming toward him a person with beautiful large eyes, serene countenance, and fair skin. As the two faced each other, a voice rang out in the depths of Sri Rama-krishna's soul: 'Behold the Christ, who shed His heart's blood...
...simple chemical poisons (TIME, March 30). The latest news from Caltech is even more incredible: antibodies against bacterial disease, pneumonia III (one of the several forms of lung infection), have now been made synthetically. This achievement of Biochemists Linus Pauling and Dan Campbell is still in the realm of experimental medicine, and flask-prepared solutions will not yet replace the immunizing serums for clinical use now developed in horses and other living animals.* But the significance of the discovery for the future of medicine is incalculable...
...World at War" is propaganda of a new type. It is the American government's first sortie into the realm of war documentary films, and the result is thirty minutes of piercing, arousing insight into the international degeneracy that was the thirties, and into the trends behind the events that led to Pearl Harbor...