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...University were 600 times smaller, or if Widener Library were 600 times larger, Thomas B. Pitman '14 would have had nothing to do in 1936. But circumstances favored Pitman: Harvard then commissioned him to construct the world's smallest university. For the modest sum of $40,000, he did indeed build it a perfect reproduction of its financier now on permanent display on the main floor of Widener...
...with his wife and children, he went campaigning with a baby-blue Cadillac and great dignity ("as a good father, good neighbor and good citizen"). That was good enough. On election day Democrat Daley won by 126,667 votes (out of 1,342,993 cast), the machine's smallest victory margin since...
Beetle v. Geoid. If the earth were a perfect sphere, he says, it would not be stable on its axis. The "smallest beetle crawling over it would change the axis of rotation in relation to markings on the sphere" because there would be no force to resist the kickback of the beetle's crawling. But the earth is not a perfect sphere; it is a geoid slightly flattened at the poles by the centrifugal force of its rotation. So it spins like a fat flywheel on the short axis between the poles...
Favors & Flattery. Right at the start of the polemical sham battle over Poland Roosevelt exposed the poverty of the Anglo-American effort. There were two related avenues for a strong U.S. approach: the high principles of self-determination for even the smallest state, and the heavy pressure of such practical measures as Russia's stake in the future of West Germany. Instead, Roosevelt and (sometimes) Churchill couched their main plea to Stalin in terms of petty politicians asking favors. At that level Stalin inevitably bested them...
...should be and yielding when Shaw has a point to make. Burgess, played by David Brooke, misses most of the opportunities for the broad comedy of the second act. But he has his accent pretty well under control, pronounced and yet distinguishable. Keith Gardiner, as Lexy, with the smallest part is unexceptionable. Were all the players as adequate as Gardiner, there would be less complaint...