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Three-Decimal Time Sirs: Would you please explain the details of how Gar Wood's time was given by you to six significant figures in TIME, March 30? How was any portion of the course measured to a fraction of a millimetre over a distance of a mile and how was the position of the boat determined at two measured points to within a small fraction of a second? Also-were your figures as accurate as precise...
...explain it, but I can sense how they will play together, in each other's arms, or kiss each other. ... If there is love at length, it must be decent. They have got to play straight with me and with each other...
...Fatigay rushed off to go to the dogs; Amy showed herself in true and unattractive colors; Emily, despairing but practical, went on the stage as a dancer. Mr. Fatigay dropped lower and lower; Emily made a fortune. One day they met again, and Emily was able to explain everything, for in the meantime she had learned to typewrite. A chastened, wiser but still admirably simple Mr. Fatigay returned to Africa with his monkey bride...
Schools cannot provide the best educational opportunities, as schoolmasters continually explain, if they are straitjacketed by college admission requirements. The entrance examination system by its very nature can never be really flexible, but colleges can neutralize its restrictive influence by allowing credit for subjects outside its narrow range. By its recent decision California joins a number of Eastern colleges in taking a liberal attitude on the question. This stand indicates that colleges are recognizing more completely what they can do to offset limitations which a strictly interpreted examination system places on secondary schools...
...students are attempting to present and explain a form of art as yet little enjoyed by the casual gallery visitor, but which they hope to make of dramatic historical appeal as well as of aesthetic interest. Moderns are well represented in the show, which will include still-life paintings by Cezanne. Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, and Walt Kuhn, lent by the Marie Harriman Gallery of New York. "Bananes at Ananas" by Renoir, from Durand Ruel of New York, is of especial interest since this is the first time it has been publicly shown in this country...