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...layer of considerable thickness. The Earth's atmosphere is playing a considerable role in the production of these radiations." The light seems to be a transformation of sunlight (or starlight) rather than a reflection of sunlight. In any case astronomers, astrophysicists and meteorologists have a new concept of the atmosphere's optical properties to develop and evaluate...
...Public psychology is interesting. It will result, as sure as you live, in this Congress' going down in history as the one which established the dollar-a-day standard rate for common labor. I warn you that you can never get away from that public concept...
...system which provides for an indiscriminate ransacking of rooms by undergraduates deserves condemnation from every thinking man. It is irresponsible. It is a public nuisance. It is the precise denial of every customary concept of dignity and privacy. Pragmatically, it becomes futile, once its operation becomes known. Its use is a strong argument for a close unified control over the management of House libraries...
...mystery of modern journalism is the Press's concept of news about itself. Confronted with a story about his own business, the newspaper editor seems to throw his news yardstick out the window. Last week offered a clear example. The Press gave columns to the dull doings of State Publishers' Associations convened throughout the land. It reported at length a Columbia University survey showing that most newspaper readers turn first to left-hand pages (for the obvious reason that right-hand pages are usually filled with advertising). The Press dwelt lovingly on a speech by Undersecretary of State...
...events. If we have been taught to judge physical training in American institutions of higher education upon the basis of packed stadiums and over-paid coaches, then we cannot resent the fact that the most harrowing economic depression in history has served to jolt us loose from this superficial concept...