Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What these men wanted was a chance to do their work. That is also what the world wants of them and it is what every university must want. To use a man who has it in him to enlarge the sphere of human understanding for work that someone else could do as well is the most expensive kind of waste. Every teacher in a college ought to have, so far as possible, the sort of tools he needs, including laboratories, and not too great a teaching lead. On the latter point there will be, it is true some difficulty...
...yellow, rubberized cotton gasbag shot upward from Augsburg, Germany before dawn one day last week, dragging after it a 7-ft. aluminum sphere, half black, half silver, from which flew a. Swiss flag. Up, up?and to the south and west?the balloon CH-113 soared until it was a gleaming globule in the rays of the sun not yet risen. Up above the 42,000-ft. mark reached by the late Balloonist Lieut. Hawthorne Gray, up past Lieut. Apollo Soucek's airplane altitude of 43,166 ft.?the highest that man had ever risen?the CH-113 entered...
...rollers to Taylor for two outs, and ended the inning with a fly to Ticknor at left field. Lupien started Harvard's half of the frame by driving out a long fly to right field, a ball which proved too much for Pray of Rhode Island, who juggled the sphere for a long enough time to let the batter circle the bases. Sheldon hit safely, after which Martynik took a brace and struck out Mays and Taylor. Passes to McCaffrey and McGrath filled the bases, but Cragan pulled his team out of a bad hole by hurling himself high against...
...That cessation of economic aggression is an essential condition for the peaceful co-operation of States in the sphere of economics irrespective of their political and economic systems...
...remain as they are, and the lodgings in the new units will cost proportionately the same; that is, between two and three hundred dollars, depending on the size of the room. Thus it will cost no more to enjoy the benefits of the Colleges than to live outside the sphere of their influence, and they may be expected to contain a true cross-section of the student body. There is good cause to be thankful to Yale's large endowment fund, and to the administration's careful apportioning of it, for in these days the undergraduate mind can imagine little...