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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whirling Discs. But Kant's hypothesis was not entirely discarded by astronomers. Recently, armed with a vast amount of detailed knowledge that Kant did not possess, modern astronomers have busied themselves reconsidering his theory and plugging holes in it. Last week, in a Chicago lecture, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago presented bis own neo-Kantian hypothesis. Basing his reasoning on hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings...
Harris said that while the colleges are getting approximately the same amount of gifts as in pre-war years, those donations do only one-eighth as much work. He attributed this depreciation to increased national income and price levels, and to the fact that these gifts must support "about four times as many students as before...
...Senate yesterday voted $1,314,010,000 to help non-Communist nations rearm. 'It was the second time in this session of Congress that the body had voted this amount, the bulk of which will go to North Atlantic alliance countries...
...House has already voted the same amount. The Senate made changes in other items contained in the appropriations bill, however, Unless the House accepts them, it must go to conference between the two Houses for the second time
Jeanne Crain, in her first serious role as Pinky, acts with the required amount of uneasiness but cannot quite convey the emotional torment which is supposed to be shaking her personality to pieces. she comes off well in the more active places, but meditation finds her a little too demure...