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...custom to originate-that the President resign a few weeks or months before the end of his term of office (say, on Christmas or New Year's day or even on Thanksgiving) so as to permit the Vice President to become President of the United States for the interim until January 20-when the newly-elected President would take office under Amendment XX to the Constitution...
...First terrestrial measurement was made in 1849 by Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel. The light struck a mirror, bounced back to the wheel. The wheel had been timed to move just enough in the brief interim for the teeth of the wheel to intercept the light as it was reflected. By timing the revolutions per second of the cogwheel and measuring the distance to the mirror, it was easy to calculate the speed of the light...
...interim--Harvard in limbo. But soon the interlude will vanish. Some people will be glad. They like action, things quite due, quite finished, quite ready. But the Vagabond will be sad. He is strictly an interlude lad. A lecture is now only a page of scrawled notes at the end of an hour. Soon, however, it will be a vital cog in the machinery of some course. Vag prefers them as they are now--as meaningless scratchings which have been joyfully interrupted in mid-sentence by the bonging of a bell...
Last week Harvard had already heard from 50 would-be applicants for next September's Nieman Fellowships. Probably twelve will be granted. Meanwhile, an "interim report" by Curator MacLeish modestly measured progress to date. Statistics: each Fellow takes five or more courses; the Baltimore Sun's Reporter Frank Hopkins leads with ten, ranging from American Constitutional Government to Byzantine History. Favorite instructors include Felix Frankfurter and Dr. Heinrich Brüning, ex-Chancellor of Germany, and Granville Hicks...
Ironic angle: the money which George Berry wanted, Tom Stewart did not want. By accepting it he would accept Senatorhood before his term as Attorney-General expires, which would give Tennessee's Governor Browning (his and Boss Ed Crump's enemy) a chance to handpick an interim Attorney-General...