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...Guggenheim centers will not build bigger & better jet engines, nor even try to. Their job will be to push into unknown regions where the jet engineers of the future may want to follow. One project at Princeton will be the study of air behavior at "hypersonic" speeds-above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). When wind tunnels are forced to this speed, and a few of them can be, they hit a fantastic difficulty. The air expands and gets so cold that its oxygen and nitrogen condense into liquids. Princeton will study this disturbing phenomenon...
...golden age of Harvard philosophers-and the greatest of them all was William James. He had wandered from art to medicine, to psychology ("The first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave"), and then finally to philosophy. He was forever reading the books of unknown authors, or listening to the lectures of his juniors, lest he overlook some undiscovered genius. He detested "educated cleverness in the service of popular idols and vulgar ends." As a teacher, he preferred thinkers of another sort: "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product...
...What words will survive or die? That is what is called (today, at any rate) "the $64 question." Editors Morley & Everett have taken no chances. They have included a host of minor poets whose work is unknown outside the little magazines. They have recorded some of the most banal remarks ever made, simply because the authors sit in 1948's high places (e.g., Secretary of State Marshall England s Princess Elizabeth), or had high hopes of sitting there ("That's why it's time for a change," says Thomas E Dewey; "We want to feel...
...cause of Buerger's disease is unknown. Many, but not all, patients are cigarette smokers (smoking constricts the small arteries). The King's doctors are reported to have ordered him to stop his heavy smoking. Most patients with Buerger's disease also have acute or chronic epidermophytosis (fungus diseases of the skin like washerwomen's itch or athlete's foot). The disease occurs most frequently between the ages of 20 and 45 (the King will be 53 Dec. 14). Doctors do not know why, but men victims outnumber women...
...into a breezy English that made the dons wince ("Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this. 'You gods,' she exclaimed, 'ought to be ashamed of yourselves' "), then added insult to injury by claiming that the "Homer" of the Odyssey was the pseudonym of an unknown Sicilian woman...