Word: currents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Atlantic. This was partly because of Snow's reputation as a novelist and distinguished civil servant, but more because the lecture said things that were on everybody's mind. It mirrored the academic community's disquiet over a sense of division within itself, and met a prevailing current of thought favoring some sort of inter-disciplinary ecumenical movement. Snow's Godkin Lectures on "Science and Government" fill no such need and will probably not have the same kind of effect, and as an admirer of Sir Charles, I would like to record my disappointment. The saving grace of the series...
...vision to strive after place Snow near the camps of those calling for national purpose and those who are sad to se the end of ideology. His weak argument for more scientists in top government positions derives from something more serious and more important: a revulsion against the current western attitude of hopelessness about politics and all attempts to organize men in he service of a common ideal. To the extent that his mood is born of a sense of the emptiness of so much of the activity in our society, and separating it from his catch-phrase talk about...
High Standards. They also attract early bloomers: 63% of current freshmen at St. Paul's Macalester were in the upper 5% of their high school classes; 20 are National Merit Scholars. Missouri's West minster, where Winston Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946, boasts that not one of its recommended graduates has been turned down at a medical school of his choice for three decades...
...internal electrical circuits reacted with the earth's magnetic field and made the satellite's axis swing slowly away from the desired direction. To keep this from happening again. Tiros II has turns of aluminum wire running around its girth. On signal from the earth an electric current can be shunted through the wire. This will modify the effect of the earth's magnetism and should keep the satellite's axis pointing properly...
Such advances in the flexibility of the telephone are the result of a $25 million 50-year research effort; it produced a completely new electronic switching system that works 1,000 times faster than current dial telephones. The heart of the system, housed in several neat rows of grey cabinets in Electronic Central office at Morris, is 12,000 tiny transistors that control or amplify electrical current pulsing through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second...