Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel on a mountain peak just inside the Italian border, an international collection of travelers are interned until Rome has time to see who is going to fight whom in an impending war. There are a pair of honeymooning Britons, a German scientist, a French Communist, all of whom give every evidence of being men of good will. There are also a French armament maker, his Russian mistress, Irene (Lynn Fontanne), a troupe of U. S. showgirls whom she calls "obvious little harlots," and their blatant but philosophical master of ceremonies, Harry Van (Alfred Lunt). When a nearby Italian airport...
...where we shall be concerned with "teaching less and less but at the same time providing a better and better education." Progress to this end cannot be instantaneous. It will take at least a generation to win the goal. But we can all be glad that so eminent a scientist as James B. Conant, who understands today's demands for scholarly specialization as well as anyone can, likewise sees the need of new synthesis, new simplification and generalization in America's higher education. He is prepared to fight for these gains, and in such effort he deserves all possible...
...science consists of a great mass of observed facts, a great number of attempts to connect one with another. But the connections (theorems) themselves have little interconnection. It is as if each existed in a different world, or as if the world itself had no logical unity. To a scientist this is repugnant. He accepts on faith that the world is a harmonious whole; he may choose any way he wishes to connect different phenomena; if he chooses the right one it will fall into place as naturally as a word in a puzzle, and no conceivable experiment will dislodge...
Henry Hemmendinger '35, 1G., and Miss Henrietta Swope are the other members of the University who will sail on Wednesday, April 8 for Russia, where they will join Dr. B.P. Gerasimovic, Soviet scientist, in the journey to the field station set up by the Poulkova Observatory...
...Pasteur," the French interpretation of the life of the great scientist, will be presented again today under the auspices of the French Talking Films Committee. Performances will be given at the Institute of Geographical Exploration on Divinity Avenue at 1.40, 4.00, 6.30, and 8.30 o'clock...