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...purpose of the du Pont Fellowship Plan is primarily to promote the advancement of science and the scientific training of young men, and to co-operate with the educational institutions in their efforts to carry on advanced research work. The du Pont fellowships differ from the usual industrial fellowships in that they are not restricted to research on subjects directly connected with the du Pont products. Experience has proved that the broad purpose of the plan is best served by permitting the colleges to select the beneficiary of the fellowship and the research subject as well...
These indices differ because they are figured on different bases. Dun's was started in 1860, is compiled from more than 200 items. The magic base of normality-100%-is not used. Instead, figures expressing a total in which each item is "weighted" according to per capita consumption, allow the index to run where it will. For customers used to the Bradstreet index started in 1892 Dun & Bradstreet also computes the combined per-lb. prices of 96 items. This monthly index was at $6.35 in March 1933, is now at $11.14. The Annalist uses a long list of commodities...
...been more than four months in the making. To stage, costume, write, score, act and direct it, the Government had hired at $23.50 per person per week some 250 untried, unemployed or unfit stage folk from the Chicago area. Result was a three-hour performance which did not differ in quality from most previous amateur or Federal drama. When it was good it was very good, when it was bad it was awful...
...President is, appropriately, the Crescendo of Poissonality. He has the most finished technique. You would hardly know it was a technique, but for the occasional revealing split second. Opinions may differ as to the secondary qualities required in a President of the United States, but undoubtedly the first is Poissonality. Such Poissonality, swollen by its own success, has its dangers. Let us hope Roosevelt will not fall for it himself...
...Whether or not," Dr. Gregory concluded, "the self-named Homo sapiens will listen to the small voice of comparative anatomy and paleontology, the facts plainly indicate that the skeletons of both the horse and his rider, however much they differ in details, are but divergent modifications of the old grappling bridge type. . . . This elementary but far-reaching fact, which was well understood by Buffon, Lamarck, Darwin and all later evolutionists, is to this day ignored by the vast majority of mankind, including the writers of many textbooks on human anatomy...