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...sailplane--one of those white gull-winged ones that soar so silently over the countryside, miraculously holding itself off from the sordid earth beneath. Vag shoots into the air, makes use of several tricky thermals, then skillfully maneuvers the ship in a tight spiral under a great heavy cumulus cloud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...prominent in its organization, a direct connection with the University was made possible. The political cannon trained their muzzles on Plan E, and finding the range to be the same as that of Harvard, banged away all the more happily in that knowledge. The result has been such a cloud of ill will between Cambridge and Harvard that the real objective--Plan E--has been completely obscured. The sole recrimination against the alleged Harvard participation in Plan E activities which is now causing the University any concern is the tax question. The other proposals can probably be labeled as political...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRONTS OF UNIVERSITY WARFARE: POLITICAL | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

...examined these questions: Is love 1) a rainbow, 2) the morning star, 3) the evening star, 4) "a miracle which shines around the cradle of the babe." 5) "something which shines round the quiet tomb?" Is a motorcar 1) a bag of potatoes, 2) a hollyhock, 3) a flying cloud, 4) the sound of the sea? That these questions are likely to be received with awe instead of derision is largely due to the fact that the author was Ivor Armstrong Richards, a founder of the modern science of semantics (the meaning of language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Love & Motor Car | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...sport continue to be a prominent feature in Harvard athletics...The only thing to be done is to organize class elevens...From these teams a fairly strong 'varsity eleven may be picked to play the Canadian teams, and thus the foot-ball spirit may be kept alive until the cloud of faculty disapproval, which now rests above the sport, shall be removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plucky Harvard Men of 1885 Saved Football | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Looking through an opening in the vast cloud of cosmic dust that fills the Milky Way System, Harlow Shapley. Director of the Harvard College Observatory, has discovered a staggering total of about 6,000 now galaxies, each composed of thousands of millions of stars and suns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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