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Sixty years ago, the U.S. was still provincial. It was a country of vast, lonely spaces and rural communities where people read magazines like the Saturday Evening Post by kerosene lamplight. The outside world was remote. America's role in World War I had destroyed the distance, but that was...
Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit...
As a gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has added a cubit to her stature, she...
That assumption is a bit of a slander upon the animal kingdom, of course. It arises from an egocentric and spiritually complicated habit of mankind. People use animals not only for food and clothing and scientific experiment and decoration and companionship, but also, most profoundly, for furnishing the human mind...
After blowing out both Penn and Columbia last week, the Crimson went into yesterday's meet confident. Second-year Coach Frank Haggerty used this race as an experiment, which might prove useful against tougher Ivy opponents Dartmouth and Princeton. Haggerty sent his harriers out with instructions to run the first...