Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...space forced him to conclude that a non-expanding universe theory "is more economical and less vulnerable." If the red-shifts do not really indicate velocity, he wrote, one has a "rather simple and thoroughly consistent picture of a universe in which . . . the large-scale distribution of nebulae is uniform throughout the sample available for inspection." On the other hand, to assume that the shifts really indicate receding velocity forces one to adopt a very curious model of the universe. "The model is closed and very small-a large fraction can be observed with existing telescopes-and is packed with...
...Brazilian Senate, flanked by the Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the President of the Chamber of Deputies. Below them sat the U. S. President in a grey suit flanked by U. S. Ambassador Hugh Gibson and Son James Roosevelt arrayed in the new white uniform of a Lieutenant-Colonel of Marines (Reserve). Then, after listening to a half-hour address of welcome, Franklin Roosevelt arose to deliver his opening salute to Peace...
True, it would be nice to have such a uniform athletic policy around here, but if it can only be obtained by a letting down of our own standards, it is hardly worth the candle. One would need a singular degree of optimism to expect all the gentlemen around us, now the proud possessors of the best football teams that money can buy, immediately to metamorphose into little angels. Virtue will, in all probability, continue to be its own reward...
...undergraduates there as they do here. Such critics point to minor differences in standards--which they would remove most of the pressure from highly professionalized antagonists. United in self-defense and cooperation, the seven colleges can elevate without fear of repercussion, the standards to a common high through uniform eligibility rules, fixed practice sessions, and similar regulations...
...Yale undergraduate opinion favorable though not enthusiastic about Ivy League, but university officials in general are opposed and stress complications as difficulty in enforcing uniform entrance and eligibility requirements and scholarship grants. Yale athletic director Malcolm Farmer unprepared to comment yet, as is President James R. Angell but they were both opposed in the Fall of 1934, when President Gates of Pennsyl...