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...sense of social responsibility that by his own act he has classified himself among the dangerous men of our time." Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Arthur Holly Compton thought that "in a university, if radical viewpoints were not discussed, it would mean that such a university was intellectually stagnant...
...Copper Country, on Lake Superior, looks desolate to visitors, gives the impression of having outworn its history. Beneath the birch, poplar and jackpine trees are innumerable outcroppings of lava, last traces of the volcano which brought up the rich copper lodes from the earth's depths. Agriculture is stagnant, and the mining towns of Calumet, Houghton, Hubbell, Lake Linden, studded with company-built houses, have the melancholy look of semi-depopulation. But the streams near the stamping mills still run red with crushed ore rock...
Pools long stagnant were quietly liquidating. Individuals and investment trusts were lightening their holdings, so that they would not have to report transactions to the SEC as holders of more than 10% of a corporation's stock. And, gloomy over the whole outlook for securities trading, some brokers were walling to part with their seats on the New York Stock Exchange for $76,000, lowest price since...
...predisposing factor in the production of such disorders. Such a 'lesion' affects the circulation of blood and lymph and thus becomes responsible for producing in the tissues the point of lowered resistance in which germs locate and propagate. It is also responsible for a region of stagnant blood, or some-times of stimulated circulation, which may result in excess or defect or perversion of the growth or function in structures directly influenced...
...which consequently enjoyed an unprecedented ship ping boom. Last week San Francisco's Mayor Angelo Rossi stepped in as peacemaker. In his office Joe Ryan sat down with ship owners and representatives of the Mari time Workers' Union, signed an agreement under which the flow of commerce, stagnant for 39 days, was to be resumed. Main features of the agreement were : recognition of I. L. A. for collective bar gaining; joint control of employment by the union and employers; arbitration of the hour-wage dispute. But the agreement did not grant "closed shop," and was quickly rejected...