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...Manuel. Of the Filipinos as a people, the Encyclopedia Britannica observes: "In social contact they are a charming, idealistic race. Their evolution is probably toward a homogeneous people, but the racial cleavages are very apparent and sometimes stand in the way of united and lasting action. Their political development, which has been manipulated by clever politicians, has outstripped their other attainments...
Lerner, formerly on the faculty at Yale, was one of the Associate Directors of the Social Service Encyclopedia. He was appointed a Lecturer here at the beginning of the year...
Whether the "canals" are any more than an optical illusion is, perhaps, doubtful. The great difficulty there is in pronouncing on their reality is due to the fact that the astronomer is dealing with objects not plainly visible. To quote the Encyclopedia Britannica, "the question becomes one of psychological optics rather than astronomy...
...Tulyevich Schmidt became the most famed in all Russia, and his fame the most glamorous when he and his party of 101 were airplane-rescued from the ice-sunk Chelyuskin (TIME, April 13, 1934). Subsequently he almost died of pneumonia. Last week, hale & hearty, this editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia and Chief of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration was back in Leningrad after an air tour of Polar settlements. The ecstasy he offered to eager Communists this time was an elaborate scheme for civilizing their blubber-munching Eskimos...
Proud is Editor Ansley that his Encyclopedia is up-to-date enough to include Babe Ruth's departure from the Boston Braves last June. Even prouder is he that it covers such neglected U. S. subjects as the Conestoga wagon, lassoing, Turkey in the Straw, Pemaquid...