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Attitudes of most board members was not known last night. They are arriving in Boston today from all over the country, and how they vote this afternoon is expected to depend largely on the sentiments of local Harvard Clubs...
Airlines go no further than Newark, and from there on, depend on the Pennsylvania Railroad. American Airlines has only one flight today, leaving Logan Field at 5:45 p.m., and reaching Newark at 7:37 p.m. An 8:03 connecting train brings you to Princeton...
Perhaps the biggest and best news in the world last week concerned Western Germany, on whose battered pits and blast furnaces and factories depend Europe's future and (very likely) the world's peace. Western Germany was what the "Berlin crisis" was all about. The Russians had imposed the Berlin blockade in a desperate attempt to prevent Western German recovery. This Russian plan failed. Just four months after the Western Allies introduced their great currency reform, Western Germany was on its feet again. Its revival was a notable triumph for German energy and for certain Western ideas, including...
...desirable than the Draft could be carried on endlessly. The type of U.M.T. which Mr. Conant envisions, however, does not seem the best answer. Evening drill for ten years would put serious restrictions on the trainee's mobility; his work, his vacations, whether or not he travels would all depend on his local unit. The value of weekly training from a military stand-point might well be compared to Boy Scouting; it would be enormously expensive and highly complicated to set up; and, as a ten-year indoctrination program, it is wide open to the attacks of those who fear...
Lined Bar. This is THE meter: the standard length in terms of which all the world's measurements are defined. Even men who speak in pounds or poods, kilometers or versts, acres or mu depend ultimately upon the meter bar in Paris. The subtler units of measurement, such as dynes, electron-volts and curies, are based...