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Rumors now circulate through the school, as to how the University will cut expenses. Each professor suspects that his program may vanish, and may students wonder which departments of the school will continue functioning. While the University delays taking any action, a good part of the school lies dormant. No one can start research projects. The libraries must limp along on inadequate budgets, and worn out equipment is not replaced. It is a poor atmosphere for academic development...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Design --- A School Without Direction | 12/11/1952 | See Source »

Perhaps (who knows?) man's three-dimensional space is folded. At present man cannot cut through the fourth dimension to another part of space, but with new understanding, he might learn. A space ship using this tactic could vanish from nearby space and pop up at once a billion light-years away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Journey into Space | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...Kitchen. Whether this has been an oversight, an economy measure, or a deliberate plot by a vegetarian chef, it must be rectified. Harvard houses used to serve the best chop suey this aide of Yee Hung Gooey's magnificent restaurant on Oxford Street. But this reputation is sure to vanish if meatless chop suey becomes official policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO CHOP, NO SUEY | 10/2/1952 | See Source »

These flash and vanish; woo them not to stay...

Author: By Ronald P. Kriss, | Title: As Student and Teacher, Santayana Left Mark on College | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...Saucer Flies Again. Down from Delaware roared another flight of night fighters. This time the blips did not vanish. They stayed on the ground scopes while the jets screamed among them. But only one pilot saw a light; another saw a doubtful blip on his scope. It vanished before he could shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blips on the Scopes | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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