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...burning bush through which God spoke to Moses was atop either Mt. Sinai or, according to another tradition, Mount St. Catherine twelve miles to the south. St. Catherine is the higher. It is the highest (8,540 ft.) peak, the point nearest the Sun in the rocky Sinai Peninsula. For that reason-and because the atmosphere thereabouts is almost dustless, almost hazeless-rather than for holy associations, the Smithsonian Institution decided that the top of St. Catherine was the best accessible place in the entire Eastern Hemisphere for a solar observatory. Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot last week announced that building...
...last year, added little to the offensive power of the Indians last weekend after the first surprise had worn off. From the result of the Lafayette game, one would almost say that Jack Cannell is purposely nursing his team along slowly in the hope that it will reach its peak on the successive Saturdays when it meets Yale and Harvard...
...prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor ones and write a full-size thesis. Scholastically, Princeton is at its peak, the Depression perhaps having had something to do with making the students take brain-training seriously...
Already obvious is the fact that 1918 marked the peak of employment in the U. S.; 1929 the peak of production. If all U. S. factories were running today at 1929 production, half of the 12 to 14 million now out of work would still be unemployed, note the Technocrats. One hundred men. they show, working steadily in less than a dozen U. S. brick plants, can produce all the bricks the country needs. To produce all the commodities which the U. S. requires, the individual worker needs to work only 660 hours a year...
...mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck...