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...range. Course 31a does not accomplish very much for anyone not planning to explore some place. It is built around Professor Rice, who has had wide experience but is usually in New York and does not have much time to spend on the course. 35a, on Cartoraphy, has the widest appeal, but it is only open to concentrators in Geography and certain other scientific fields. It is well taught by Raisz...
Only five years ago Franklin Roosevelt called TVA "the widest experiment ever undertaken by a government." By last winter the experimenters chosen to do the job had become one of the President's worst headaches. Quarreling among the three TVA directors obliged him to call them to the White House to try their charges against one another. He was pained when Chairman Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, insisting that the trial would not be adequate, refused to discuss with the President his complaints against his co-directors, insisted on taking them to Congress (TIME, March 21). When the President dismissed...
...Lilienthal), not too squeamish about the means necessary to promote public ownership in which he heartily believes, shrewd Mr. Lilienthal would have the better of it. Save as a political incident, the investigation appeared important only as it might publicize some lesser known facts about the Government's "widest experiment...
...compulsory religious courses in Chinese mission schools. Said she: "I am very glad to tell you that those who criticized you and criticized Christianity in years past are the ones who are articulate now in their praise of Christianity. . . . You have shown what true, practical Christianity means in its widest sense...
...eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh, with a scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale, it dives under the first...