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No normal man could freeze to death without first feeling the cold. None could fry without feeling the heat. But burning and freezing are ancient dangers, and nature has had plenty of time to evolve defenses. X rays and gamma rays are a subtler peril. Until recently, they were unimportant...
To demonstrate this point, Nervi used slides illustrating the evolution of the automobile, the airplane, and the locomotive. Early imaginative conceptions of the airplane designed without regard to physics, he pointed out, were grotesque "fantasies" with no common design. On the other hand, the shape of the modern airplane, determined...
The only issue (or Issue, as she would have written it) in Thirkell books is the regrettable march of progress; now and then someone will remark that Things are Not as They Once Were, and the rest of the guests at tea will agree that This is Bad. But progress...
Nine years ago Nathan M. Pusey came to Harvard from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, to become President of an enormous institution built on layer after layer of sedimented traditions. A slow and delicate play of subterranean forces had brought it to its current stature, a vast and complex machinery...
Died. Homer William Smith, 67, lanky, leading U.S. physiologist who was first to trace the evolution of the kidney, for 34 years taught New York University medical students to reflect on the arts as well as the sciences, and as a passionate agnostic sought to prove in his books Kamongo...