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Ever since the Indian Mutiny in 1857 the British Raj had managed to deal with such disturbances. A long line of viceroys, some bad, some as imbued with noble sentiments as Viscount Halifax, professed that British rule was guiding India through evolution to eventual dominionhood in the British Empire. But...
Mysterious emergence out of nowhere is common to viruses. In size they are somewhere between living bacteria and lifeless molecules, and they share some characteristics of each. They crystallize like lifeless matter, but they also possess the astonishing ability to reproduce themselves like living organisms. A virus "generation" probably lasts...
Says FORTUNE: "In one respect Walt Disney is a man of almost godlike power, for there is literally no limit to the things he can create on the screen. He can set forth anything from a world in evolution to the whirling of electrons invisible to the human eye. He...
By that time the carriers now authorized may embody part of that transition. The question raised by Seversky is whether the evolution of carriers can be successful enough so that ships of the sea can hold their own against ships of the air in the struggle, already begun, for the...
The first will be held June 30 at 8 o'clock in the observatory library, when Dr. G. P. Gaposchkin will speak on "The Present Status of Theories of Stollar Evolution." On July 7 Dr. Harlow Shapley, Paino Professor of Practical Astronomy, will conduct a hollow square conference and the...