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When professors and counsellors meet this week to settle the fate of the American History Plan they can take the easy way out by agreeing to muddle along for another year, or perhaps for four years, as Professor Jones has suggested. But the Plan's California angels are not going to continue shelling out twenty-five thousand dollars a year if no concrete results can be shown before 1942. The History Program must be oriented in one of two opposite directions: into the formal curriculum, or into a new realm of extra-curricular education...
...Rome-Berlin Axis, a formal military alliance seemed to make no change in Europe's balance of power. But what the Foreign Ministers had announced by implication was that Italy would automatically come to the help of Germany in case of trouble, and vice versa. With the fate of the Free City of Danzig already at issue between Germany and Poland, the announcement in effect placed Italy's full force behind Germany's demands...
...that nearly all stars and nebulae consist of the same chemical elements in roughly the same relative proportions as we find them in the sun? Where and how do the stars generate their stupendous energies of light and heat, and what is the ultimate fate of their radiation...
...dusty Prince Albert and stovepipe hat, is unmoved by Maximilian's liberal protestations, his break with his selfish landowner backers, his sincere offer to make the President his Secretary of State. And when the U. S. finally frightens Napoleon into abandoning the puppet emperor to his fate, Juárez makes a choice between principle and pity, sends Maximilian before a firing squad...
...outside world. For in the next few weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost of silk stockings on the leg is going to be higher this summer...