Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is no law between the nations today, so a "supreme court" of learning could never be more than a pretentious joke. Underneath it all lies science's long-nursed hope to drive the politicians from the temples and rule a brave new world through reason alone. It is Technocracy and Utopianism; it is Howard Scott, Aldous Huxley, and Henry Ford rolled into one. It is even H. G. Wells...
Forerunner of the modern slide-rule, "Napier's Bones," is among the other articles to be seen in Robinson Hall. The "bones" are tiny pieces of wood, one-quarter inch square in cross section and two inches long. The whole set is about the area of a playing card. Each face of the bones is neatly inscribed with multiples of each of the nine digits, and computations are made by sliding the bones until the proper figures are in alignment. The set was owned by Samuel Webber, President of Harvard from...
...could not attend. He was to have read a paper "On Some Approximate and Rigorous Solutions of the Field Equations." Another Nobel Prizewinner who was expected to attend but did not was cocky young Werner Heisenberg of Germany, author of the famed "Uncertainty Principle" which has severely shaken the rule of Cause & Effect in physical science. Just as he was getting ready to leave Leipzig, at whose university he has been a professor for nine of his 35 years, the Uncertainty Principle's author was ordered to stay home and serve eight weeks in the German Army...
...military training from 21 to 19, thus adding two age classes to the Soviet Army machine. The corps diplomatique in Berlin was also asked to remember that last year the French conscript term was doubled from one year to two and that in fact two years is now the rule in most countries adjoining the Fatherland. To put things thus quietly and sensibly to the German people is not emotional Herr Hitler's way. His high-pressure Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment was turned on full blast last week to announce such absurdities as that Russia's army...
...hero, Ranger esprit de corps creeps into Wahoo, Jim begins to eye the Ranger boss's daughter. Thereafter both take their chores with increasing seriousness until the final test of their loyalty comes in the order to get their old friend Sam. Not until Sam has broken the rule of friendship by shooting Wahoo, can Jim bring himself to do the same, prove himself a real Ranger by shooting...