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Thus, in 1885 the College had 15.3 out of every thousand college students in the country, but only 0.5 per thousand in 1945. In the last decade, however, the number has risen to 1.9 in 1950 and 2.2 in 1955. In the last, possibly portentous of the College's continuing to hold an increasing share of the nation's college candidates...
...Long Vow. Abandoned, Chitor became a haunt of tigers, one of a thousand Hindu shrines, and today the only recurring evocation of its stirring last days is the curse which may sometimes be heard on Indian lips: "By the sin of the sack of Chitor." The Rajput armorers became a tribe of wandering blacksmiths called the Gadia Lohars, big, fork-bearded men in pink turbans, women wearing silver bangles and big silver nose rings, and untouchables worshiping the smallpox goddess, Sheetala. Without quite knowing why, they still observe their ancient vow: never do they sleep under a roof, but live...
...held in such esteem that when a Dominican monk thundered that mathematics was of the Devil, and that mathematicians should be banished from Christian states, the preacher-general of the order apologized to Galileo by letter: "Unfortunately, I have to answer for all the idiocies that thirty or forty thousand brothers may and do actually commit...
...Scientist Louis Slotin, 35, of Winnipeg, Canada, dropped a screw driver during a similar experiment, died after eight days. The book is dedicated to his memory and to that of "more than one hundred thousand others...
...Seavey was assigned to set it up. Given two old barracks to work in, he immediately--without authority--commissioned Army carpenters to make classrooms out of them and hi-jacked a shipment of chairs headed for GHQ. Acting with consummate nerve, Seavey even turned in an order for a thousand fountain pens to equip the students he did not yet have. (The Army was not that dumb, however; it refused.) Finally, just four days after the whole thing started, he was ready to begin teaching. More than 150 students showed up and the school lasted--very successfully--for some three...