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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-two years ago Professor Pickering first became aware of an immense heavenly body beyond the known superior planets. He knew that the object of his search was huge, thought he would call the planet Pluto when he was sure of its existence. When Lowell's Planet X came along and got that name, the putative Pickering planet was then called Planet...
...year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa...
...exactly in this vagueness about fundamental principles that lie the gravest dangers to modern civilization. The twentieth century has in large measure rejected the hypotheses on which the Victorians built their philosophy, religion, and ethics, but it has determined on no course of its own. Unless the universities search into the bases of beliefs in an effort to guide the nation out of the present maze of indecision, they are failing in their greatest trust. Revaluation may have been overworked as a theme for speeches and articles, but there is urgent need of its application as a principle of thought...
...every part of the country. People found their feet, hands, necks becoming paralyzed. Victims, their consciences uneasy, called the palsy "Jake paralysis." Medical research confirmed their suspicions. Everyone afflicted was a drinker of Jamaica ginger, as an intoxicant or a medicine (TIME, March 24, 1930). Followed a frenzied search by the Government for the specific cause. Chemists eventually revealed the poison as the phosphoric acid ester of tricresol. Its inclusion in the beverage was a manufacturers' accident. Manufacturers were indicted (TIME, July...
...have been no crusades. We have too little faith, and too much education for great journeyings into the cities of God. But De Soto died far down the Father of the Waters, Henrick Hudson set sail to find a North West Passage, and Ponce de Leon died in his search for a fountain of eternal youth. Something of this spirit drove men out west in the country's early years and sent them across the Panhandle into Texas, that they might fight for life in those far regions. Something of this spirit brings men out of Texas today...