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...three weeks ago a new candidate suddenly popped up: 90 members of the senate signed a petition in favor of India's Jawaharlal Nehru, M.A. Cantab. '14. The Nehru backers were only a fraction of the electors, but they represented that confirmed and vocal band of British political idealists who hold, with Nehru, that it is both possible and desirable to be neutral in the struggle between Russia and the West. The undergraduate Varsity backed Nehru as "the man who has maintained the most consistently impartial attitude throughout the Korean...
...disadvantages of nonaural hearing become apparent in a lecture hall or cocktail lounge," explained Hirsh. "The listener never knows who is speaking." Using this new aid, sounds from the right will be perceived a fraction of a second earlier in the right unit than in the left, enabling the user to tell from what direction they are coming. This is the principle on which normal hearing operates...
...many Protestants are there in Spain? According to Editor Garrison, they are "no negligible minority." Official Spanish sources have asserted that among Spain's 28 million people there are no more than 2,000, but Garrison puts the figure "probably not much below 20,000 . . . about the same fraction of the total population that the Quakers have in the United States." One source of uncertainty about the total, he says, is the Roman Catholic custom of counting anybody who has been baptized a Catholic, even though he may have since joined a Protestant church. This principle works a great...
While developing her industry, Canada has also strengthened her position as a leading world supplier of raw materials. The vast oil exploration program in Alberta ("Second only to that of Texas") and the 350-million-ton Ungava-Labrador iron ore deposits ("Only a fraction of what the field will eventually yield") are prime examples of new riches uncovered during...
...spite of their locker-bulging growth, frozen-food companies still have plenty of room in which to expand. Only 13.4% of U.S. families now drink frozen orange juice regularly; frozen vegetables amount to only a fraction of the total market. Optimistic frozen-food men think that if grocers would increase their freezer space they could "just about kill the fresh vegetable market...