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...acorn from which the Ukrainian oak is expected to grow is the autonomous district of Ruthenia, eastern tip of the German-dominated remainder of Czechoslovakia. Poland tried to coax Hungary into grabbing Ruthenia last month, but Germany effectively vetoed the idea. The 725,000 Ruthenians differ only slightly from Ukrainians in dialect and religion...
...after November Hours the budding mathematician attempts to change his section, he will find that this is quite impossible because no two instructors cover the field in the same order. And not only do the section men assert their independence in the matter of order, but they also differ in their exams and teaching technique. On the one hand there are men who make every effort to teach, to clarify the subject to even the slowest student; on the other hand there are those who merely lecture, treating any question as an inexcusable interruption. Of course the mathematical genius...
...symphony orchestras hire soloists to appear with them at concerts. In Continental Europe, it is often the other way about. There, a soloist who cannot get a paid engagement with an orchestra some-times pays the orchestra for the privilege of being heard with it. Fees for such appearances differ, depending on the country and the fame of the orchestra. In Paris an appearance, with rehearsals, costs $150 and up. In Germany and Austria rates are higher...
...laboratory lightning differs from starlight, so do the masterpieces of such kinetic moderns as Dali and Picasso seem to differ from those of past times. But other modern artists like to shine in some tranquillity, and of this steady sort two experts had exhibitions in Manhattan last week...
...Last week Franklin Roosevelt said of Munich in the course of his remarks on the Dies Committee (see p. 7): "Three weeks ago the civilized world was threatened by the immediate outbreak of a world war. Cool heads pleaded for the continuance of negotiations. People may properly differ as to the result of such negotiations, but the fact remains that bloodshed was averted." The President thus lined up with Chamberlain and Halifax on the major premise that not only war but a "world war" did actually threaten, that not fake but authentic "bloodshed was averted...