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...owed RFC $87 million by 1939, when it was supposed to start paying back. Since it was unable to do so, Congress passed a special law (the Chandler Act), which permitted the B. & O. to go into bankruptcy without its management's losing control. With that, a steady stream of officials left RFC and took B. & 0. jobs with the blessing of RFC Boss Jones...
...From the first foundation to the present, four main streams have watered the soil on which the Universities have flourished. These ultimate sources of strength are:... the cultivation of learning for its own sake;...the general educational stream of the liberal arts;...the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and the never falling river of student life... The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research institute. The sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team maneouvering under a collegiate banner. The future of the university tradition...
Even when a man is breathing hard and under great physical exertion, the amount of vapor he could inhale wouldn't get him drunk. As much as 62 percent of the alcohol inhaled is absorbed into the blood stream. The remaining 38 percent is lost through exhalation...
...Stream of History...
...German collector in the 1890s. Some of the specimens arrived alive, making it possible to study their anatomy for the first time, and they have found Washington's alien climate so attractive that they have already begun to reproduce themselves. Old's prize find: a stream-bed that was paved with Semisulcospira amurensis, a carrier of the lung-fluke larva which causes a disease with symptoms often confused with those of tuberculosis...