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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both regions has human figures alternating on the pole with figures of fish or birds. Dr. Ekholm showed the Americanists carved sticks (miniature totem poles) from both Sumatra and British Columbia and challenged them to tell him which came from where. They confessed that the designs were so similar that they could only guess whether Asiatic or American Indians made them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hints from Asia | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...relief from the Mayan temple at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, shows similar figures, distorted but still recognizable.. In the Mayan version, the fish-beasts have turned into fish, but conventionalized lotus flowers sprout from their mouths and clumsy lotus stems wind grotesquely. Since the lotus is the symbol of Buddhism, Dr. Ekholm believes that the lotus design may have been brought to Yucatan by a Buddhist missionary. He shows a carving from India of the Buddha seated in a lotus flower. Beside it he shows another stylized lotus flower from Yucatan. In the center, instead of the placid Buddha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hints from Asia | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Mark III solves problems, the answers are recorded on another magnetic tape similar to the one on which the information was put into the machine. A magnetic tape is used because Mark III turns out answers faster than a typewriter can print them. To overcome this difficulty, the tape is then fed to a tape reader which relays the answers to a battery of five typewriters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...line with a national policy adopted at the convention. Regional projects will include the continuance and expansion of the purchase card plan-of the ten local merchants contacted, nine were highly satisfied with last year's results and intend to renew their affiliations; a national travel tour program similar to the international trips already sponsored; and reduced train and plane fares for students vacationing during the school year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Convenes, 1000 Strong | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...cornerstone of Stanford life is the honor code. This is similar tote Radcliffe plan, with no proctors at exams. The freshmen receive a very strong indoctrination into the spirit of the code, which is pictured to them as an essential part of Stanford life. The code is enforced by a student court, which has often expelled students for cheating. One attitude expressed is, "Usually I'd try to see what I can get away with, but they pull this honor business on you and you're stuck." Coupled with the Honor Code is the Fundamental Standard, which says, "Students...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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