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...Rodzinski's musical sterility (to continue a conceit begun by Rodzinski when he described Stokowski's conducting as "sexual") has time & again made the normally oppressive U.S. Rubber Co.'s "Science Talks" over the air seem the height of esthetic cultivation by comparison. Thus my joy was unbounded when Rodzinski "resigned." This joy was snuffed out, however, by the announcement that he would pilot the Chicago Symphony next season...
Russian Finance Minister A. G. Zverev last week reported that in 1947 Russia's expenditure for its armed forces would be 52% of what it was in 1945. A comparison Zverev did not make: for the fiscal year 1947 Britain's armed forces budget...
...time, no longer on the physiological or anatomical plane but on the spiritual and moral plane. We are at the dawn of a new phase of evolution and the violent eddies due to this change in the order of things still conceal that fact from . . . the majority.. . . In comparison, the social revolutions we witness . . . will leave no trace in the future...
...Garden last Tuesday, coach Barclay at the same time cautions against over-confidence in tonight's contest. On the basis of records against two common opponents, Tufts and M.I.T., Harvard should trim Northeastern by 38 points. Muzzling the Huskies, though, won't be as soft as this comparison would indicate, according to the Crimson's hoop mentor. "If we want to, we can win, but if we start thinking about Princeton, we may be in for a tough night...
Behind reinforced concrete walls in the Dunbar Geophysical Laboratory. Professor Bridgman has duplicated pressures existing 200 miles below the earth's surface, forces, however, that are minute in comparison with those existing at the center of the earth. Under such conditions, solid rock becomes highly plastic and considerably more dense...