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...most amazing thing here as elsewhere in life is the number of people who know so many things that are not so. In TIME, July 31, a North Carolina editor tells you that the Negro objects to being called "colored" and tells you why. Now will he explain why the leading organization of that race in this country calls itself the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People? They chose their own name...
Cosmic Ripples. Dr. Arnold Heim. famed oil & mining consultant, attended the I. G. C. as a delegate of the Swiss Government and the Swiss Academy of Science. Landing in Manhattan last month, he made news by promising to disclose a new theory to explain the twitchings that have changed earth's face. Last week he kept his promise. First with merciless logic he assailed the old thesis that earth's crustal movements represented the spending of terrestrial energy...
Some" cosmic impulse of mysterious origin, said Dr. Heim, must be imagined to explain not only the crustal movements, but also fitful accelerations in the rate of earth's rotation and displacements in the position of its axis. Thus he pictured an earth not growing more & more inert, like a snake in the cold, as it consumed its legacy of energy from the sun, but an earth constantly stirred by fresh cosmic im pulses-"although," he added, "the Newton to explain them has not yet come...
...last 100 years. The lecture is intended for the layman, so that a knowledge of Zoology will not be necessary in order to follow Dr. Macdonald's talk. It is expected that the lecturer will confine himself to the more familiar aspects of Biology. Professor Macdonald will probably explain at length Darwin's theory of the origin of species and the present conception of evolution that has grown from it. Another topic might be the Mendelian theory of the inheritance of characteristics, or Patseur's work on sterilization. A point of far-reaching importance that will posisbly be discussed...
...mean she doesn't care just about dancing and having a good time every night. We talked it all over. It's sort of hard to explain, but what I mean is even when you feel pretty serious about a girl, you're apt not to think much about the future. That's why we talked it all over, I mean...