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...years away, and each light-year is six trillion miles. If a space ship traveled at 50,000 m.p.h. (high speed in the solar system), it would take many thousands of years to reach a nearby star. Its crew would die of old age before the voyage had really gotten under...
...Committee is "trying to work quietly." Members feel too much publicity will nullify its work. And "....it's done a lot of work," said a member of the Committee, "for which its gotten little credit...
Many odd sums are carried year after year on the books because the department on University has temporarily for gotten about them. Apparently the only feasible way to spend a 1944 gift for a memorial of the visit of Churchill to Harvard is for the Prime Minister to come back again...
...blackboard just inside the door of the Varsity Club someone had left a message for Dick Clasby. It read, "Dick Clasby: Call Jordan Olivar." I puzzled over that for a long moment and then charged it off to an over-anxious secretary who had gotten her Jordans crossed. "Dick," I said as I walked into his room, "'I think Coach Jordan wants you to check in with him." Clasby, seated reading a book, only smiled. "Do you mean that message for me downstairs? Forget it. The guys are kidding me again." Such humor, three days before the Yale game...
...hunted up someone who I knew had gotten several tickets and stated my case. He was very sympathetic, and holding out a bunch of tickets fan-shape he asked me to "pick any two you wish." I was non-plussed...