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...Department must review its own rapid, uncertain, and undernourished growth and attend to the task of tying up loose ends. Beyond cavail, the college must recognize the growing importance of Sociology. It must discover some way of giving it a more adequate "cut" in departmental allowances, and, if necessary, shear the allotments of departments which have been sliding down the chute of popularity...
...place. There he knows he will meet Plato and Glancon and other men with whom he can examine this all too unexamined life. As they retire to the quiet of some nearby olive grove they will be followed by enthusiastic youths eager to hear Socrates fire his questions and shear his colleagues of their pretentious wisdom. They love this kindly man who professes his wisdom lies only in the awareness of his ignorance. And they like to hear him talk of the virtue that is knowledge; and the universal Good which is the mother of all mortality even...
Greece. Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear of Princeton has been directing diggers in Greece since 1911, in Athens since 1931. He has laid bare the ancient Athenian agora (market place), brought to light a multitude of priceless relics (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Last month, 50 ft. below the site of the Senate, near the Acropolis, he came upon a Mycenaean cemetery which he dated at 1500 B. C. Surrounded by wine jars, remains of food and clothing, many of the skeletons were almost perfectly preserved. U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh, something of an archeologist himself, thought the find might...
Three kinds of earthquake waves speed through the earth from the epicentre. Fastest are P (Push) waves which travel about 5 mi. per sec. They take a nearly straight path through the earth to the recording station. Then come the S (Shear) waves which make about 3 mi. per sec., follow the same path as the P waves. Last come the L (Long) waves which ripple around Earth's surface at about 2 mi. per sec. The transverse shear waves are the crux of an unsettled controversy about the nature of Earth's core. Some observers affirm they...
Well did all Senators know that these amendments would kill the effectiveness of the bill and cause the courts to declare it unconstitutional. But Cotton States' Senators were afraid to vote against it, hoped to shear off the amendments in conference with the House...