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Outside the social sciences, modern languages and the pure sciences have the largest number of followers. The French Department has a total of 1,143. The German Department has dropped below the thousand mark with...
...belligerent nation often needs wheat and lard and cotton . . . just as much as it needs anti-aircraft guns. . . . . . . Let those who seek to retain the present embargo be wholly consistent and seek new legislation to cut off cloth and copper and meat and wheat and a thousand other articles from all of the nations...
...last wartime's best sellers appear particularly relevant: Winston Churchill's A Far Country, Penrod, Tish, Over the Top, The First Hundred Thousand, Belgium's Agony...
...studies biology. Strapped before his third year is out, David braves old Sir Thomas Danby, his father's father, who has had no notion of his existence. The bastard's ordeal turns into an idyll. He finds himself on the Riviera, with an allowance of a thousand pounds a year, chaperoned by a worldly-wise epigrammatist, soon in bed with an authentic beauty named Diana, to whom he writes verses. War talk is just a bore at first. But that autumn is the autumn...
...example, the men who did the original work on photoelectricity, the phenomenon that now magically opens restaurant and railway station doors and performs a thousand sorting jobs in industry, were all pure scientists. And the man who first clarified photoelectricity by describing it mathematically was none other than Albert Einstein...